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Republican pensions are the price Mitch McConnell pays to sell his party to Donald Trump
Drew Angerer / Getty It’s been a tough year for Mitch McConnell since he had a public crisis in his late life after returning to minority status, and when he saw his wife, the former Secretary of Transportation, investigate be to use their official positions to help own a shipping company with her family. Thereafter, Roy Blunt became the fifth GOP senator to retire. Blunt cited his 23 years in the Capitol for the surprise retirement, not out of fear of the former social media influencer living on Mar-a-Lago. Blunt, a sweet insider married to a sweet lobbyist for Kraft, did what was necessary to avoid a Trump-inspired revenge appearance: He voted not to accuse Trump (twice) and opposed the legislation this week of the new president who voted for the new president. former president will still not admit that he lives in the White House. You have to keep paying. What you have not done for Trump lately can kill you. With Blunt’s retirement, the Democrats’ chances of increasing their slim Senate majority and depriving McConnell of regaining it increased. It will still not be easy. Missouri is a Trump country, and in 2018 Republicans won the seat of former Senator Claire McCaskill and elected up-and-coming man along the way Josh Hawley, who was a tough MAGA to retain. Mitch McConnell says he will support Trump In 2024 After blaming him for Capitol RiotBlunt, they join the conservative planet Earth, Pat Toomey, Rob Portman, Richard Shelby and Richard Burr, who had a good chance of a challenge off the edge, by The Sorest Loser ever, who may feel insignificant (two of the five did vote in January to accuse), or found a new sycophant he likes better, or both. The party is waiting for sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson to announce their intentions. When Ron “Anon”, who is not from our planet, leaves, you imagine how far those who will compete to replace him will compete. Income is not enough to ward off levels, but it does help. The more senators retire, the more magic McConnell will have to use to rule, and the more he will have to do to prevent the rise of mini-Marjorie Taylor Greenes. Those currently serving in the House endorsed the proposal that Nancy Pelosi be removed ‘with a bullet in the head’. McConnell had something to work with during the Obama years, such as the threat that he could not keep the doctor you wanted and would pay by the nose for the insult. Republicans will try, but to make Biden dangerous – unlike his German shepherd, who has been temporarily banned for biting security personnel – is going to be difficult. He is not a radical socialist. McConnell had gone through bad pre-elections before when the tried, the true and the informed were challenged by the poorly informed, the far-right religious and just the crazy. In mid-2010, McConnell was able to get a taste of his large office with a balcony large enough to host cigarette parties when then-Senate leader Harry Reid was considered a dead man. That was until former Nevada state congresswoman Sharron Angle launched a frivolous challenge to a formidable opponent, Sue Lowden, the party’s chairman and former state official who had a steady double-digit lead. Angle was a sympathizer of Scientology, even though he was not a member, he believed Sharia law was taking over Dearborn, Michigan, and was so afraid of the press that staff said ‘it’s time for the plants wet ‘to indicate when a reporter is approaching. But Angle won the first time. Overall, a group of Nevada Republicans supported Reid, and Angle sank like a rock, with 18 points at a time. Leader Reid would haunt McConnell until the Senate turned around in 2015 and he retired in 2017. McConnell’s worst nightmare in 2010 was Christine O’Donnell, who had an ad in which she stated that she was not a witch in a special election to replace then-Vice President Biden. After former governor and nine-time GOP congressman Mike Castle was beaten in the primary, who was elected to take back the seat of the Democrats, it turned out that her resume was fiction, but liens on her property for unpaid taxes . She could not answer questions about the Constitution that an awake sixth learner could get. Even for a family values party, her crusade was too much for abstinence. She lost to Chris Coons by 17 points. O’Donnell was the eighth candidate to support the Tea Party to win a primary that year. Among them was Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock. He gets it in his head that it’s time Senator Richard Lugar left. Although Lugar was nominated for a Nobel Prize, he was a modest member from an early age, and he quietly cast 12,000 votes over 35 years, eating most days on an apple and yogurt. Lugar gave Mourdock an opening when he took his frugality one bridge too far by selling his home among the Hoosiers for a spot across from the Potomac in suburban Virginia. Your place of residence where you serve was allowed in Indiana, but Mourdock gained many populist miles because he indigenous to Lugar as a Washington elite. Lugar’s reputation for duality was the last nail in the coffin. As a candidate, Mourdock was too far-right on issues such as social security, but he defended his stern stance on abortion, arguing that a pregnancy as a result of rape was “something God intended” to happen “- a precursor of utility-nominated Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, which cost Republicans a safe seat in Missouri in 2012 – which ended his hopes. Indiana sent Democrat Joe Donnelly to Washington. It is surprising that Blunt, a moderate since Trump’s arrival, no longer practices when he was able to avoid Trump’s anger for four years. Officials from the NRSC, the campaign of the GOP Senate caucus, have to tear their hair out. How hard can it be for Blunt to leave his soul behind for a few more years like the rest of them and win one for the team? For a moment that he was acquitted of Trump, it seemed like McConnell could regain his soul. After his “no” vote on constitutional grounds, McConnell had a moment of conscience and held Trump morally responsible for what happened on January 6. But shortly thereafter, when Trump made it clear that he would not be purged, McConnell conceded that if the person who incited a mob to overthrow the government would be a candidate in 2024, he would support him. His speech after the accusation was another hollow gesture by a man who made them a career. For McConnell, it will be a sad day if he says goodbye to his lieutenant Blunt and sadly while seeing the office with the best view. Washington could possibly leave with him. McConnell cheered again. He made a second bond on his soul for next year and beyond. Maybe that’s why Blunt is retiring. Read more at The Daily Beast. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now! Daily membership of the beast: Beast Inside goes deeper into the stories that matter to you. Learn more.