Former President Trump
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In a statement released by his Save America super PAC, Trump blamed McConnell for the GOP’s Senate losses in 2020 and asked Republicans to elect new leaders to continue his legacy.
“Mitch is an expensive, grumpy and uncompromising political heel, and if Republican Senators stay with him, they will not win again,” Trump said.
“He will never do what needs to be done or what is right for our country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will support primary competitors that are making America America Great Again and our America First policies. “We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful and compassionate leadership,” Trump said.
The statement came days after McConnell slammed the former president in a Senate floor speech after voting to release him on charges of inciting a crowd to attack the Capitol. Despite his voice, McConnell said Trump was “practically and morally” responsible for the deadly siege.
McConnell also left open the possibility that Trump could face civil or criminal charges for his role in the riots, although he was acquitted by the Senate.
“The leader of the free world can not spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then being surprised,” McConnell said.
“President Trump is still responsible for everything he did while in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations expired. … [He] “Nothing has come away yet,” McConnell added.
McConnell said he and Trump had not spoken since mid-December as tensions arose over the former president’s unproven allegations that the election had been stolen from him.
The remarks of the GOP’s Senate accusers, widely regarded as a capable political tactician, sent a clear signal that he believed the party should separate an identity that is separate from Trump in order to be competitive. stay in future elections.
The bad blood between Trump and McConnell, who had a fruitful alliance while Trump was in office, could predict a civil war taking place in primary countries across the country, while the GOP seeks a way forward now that Trump is out of office is.
Only seven Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in convicting Trump, while McConnell and 42 other Republicans voted in favor. A two-thirds vote was needed to convict Trump.
Trump remains hugely popular below the grassroots level and he has raised conservatives to turn in record numbers.
But Democrats have also shown record numbers in the Trump years, with many mainstream Republicans viewing the former president as politically toxic to independents, moderates, women and suburban voters who need them to win back majorities in the House and Senate. .
Trump on Tuesday gave the clearest signal that he intends to exert his influence on the party by going after critics.
The former president blasted McConnell, saying the GOP leader’s “lack of political insight, wisdom, skill and personality quickly drove him from majority leader to minority leader.”
“It will only get worse … We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last,” Trump said.
Trump also boasted of receiving the most votes for any sitting president in history, claiming that his presence “single-handedly” saved at least 12 Senate seats during his tenure.
The former president encouraged Republicans to elect new leaders who would be loyal to his vision for the party.
“The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Senator Mitch McConnell at the helm,” Trump said.
“He is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, thereby harming our country … He does not have what is needed, never did and never will.”
All the GOP senators who voted to convict Trump have faced criticism from Republicans in their states, and some have faced census decisions from their state parties.
Sens. Richard Burr
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Parties of the state already have Reps. Liz Cheney
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski
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Murkowski has said she does not feel at home in a GOP that she says looks loyal to Trump.
State party leaders have defended the punitive movements, saying they are overwhelmed by anger from their constituents who are furious at the legislators who did not defend Trump.
North Carolina GOP President Michael Whatley said on Tuesday that “hundreds of volunteers and activists” had contacted him to express their disappointment with Burr after his vote to convict him, prompting that the party party is asked.
Sasse, a conservative who has been a staunch critic of Trump, admitted on Tuesday that it is still Trump’s party.
“If you look at polls in the short term, it certainly looks like that,” Sasse said of NPR.
But he urged Republicans to think about being more than a party that focuses on “the personality of Donald Trump.”
“I think there is a whole lot of stuff that the Lincoln and Reagan party needs to do to convince people that we have a 2030 agenda, not a 20-minute Twitter agenda,” Sasse said.
GOP strategists are concerned about the increasingly likely possibility of an ugly primary season between Trump loyalists and those who believe the party needs to move past the former president to be successful.
“Republicans need to stop fighting yesterday’s lost battles again and focus on tomorrow,” said GOP strategist Colin Reed. ‘To be relevant again – and, more importantly, the ability to govern – Republicans need to focus their energy outward, not on each other. Until we do, we’ll just scream in the wind, and President Biden
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