Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has become the symbol of political corruption and influence of special interests that voters across the country hate about Washington. Now, Republican Senators and candidates will have to answer whether they support McConnell in his newly announced plan today to stay on as the GOP leader of his caucus after the 2020 election if he wins re-election.
Republican senators have blindly followed McConnell’s harmful agenda to hand out tax breaks and bailouts for giant corporate interests, attack health care protections for people with pre-existing conditions, obstruct prescription drug pricing reform, target programs like Social Security and Medicare for cuts, and stand in the way of desperately needed relief for hospitals, workers, and state and local governments facing budget shortfalls because of coronavirus. Their refusal to be independent voices for their states has jeopardized the Republican majority.
“As voters across the country grow increasingly fed up with Mitch McConnell’s corruption and gridlock in Washington, Republicans must answer whether they plan to vote to keep their toxic leader in charge if they are in the Senate next year,” said DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss.
McConnell has become an increasingly polarizing and unpopular figure since he became Majority Leader — so much so that Washington Republicans are planning to spend nearly $11 million on TV ads this fall to bail out his struggling re-election campaign in Kentucky. McConnell’s growing vulnerability in his home state is already draining Republican resources at the expense of other vulnerable GOP incumbents in battleground states across the Senate map.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
POLITICO: McConnell vows to stay on as GOP leader even if Republicans lose Senate
The GOP’s majority faces increasing peril.
By BURGESS EVERETT and JOHN BRESNAHAN
June 16, 2020
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