Senate Republican leader McConnell calls out a 'diminished' former President Trump and vows not to bow to his candidates in 2024.
The diminished standing has made McConnell — and by extension his allies, like the deep-pocketed Senate Leadership Fund super PAC — “less inclined to accept cards that may be dealt to us,” he said.
“We can do a better job with less potential interference,” he said. “The former president may have other things to do.” McConnell also blamed Trump for tarnishing the party’s image among crucial independent and swing voters, who rejected GOP Senate contenders in the states that decided the majority. He said that the party underperformed in “every state” — including the red state of Ohio, which Republicans narrowly won — and that its performance was “fatal” in Arizona, New Hampshire and Georgia.
“We lost support that we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party — largely made by the former president — that we were sort of nasty and tended toward chaos,” McConnell said. “And oddly enough, even though that subset of voters did not approve of President Biden, they didn’t have enough confidence in us in several instances to give us the majority we needed.
McConnell is seeking to turn the page on a disastrous Senate cycle for the GOP and seize on various pickup opportunities to win the majority in 2024. Democrats are defending three seats in red states and five more in closely divided states. Their best hopes to flip seats are in Republican-leaning Florida and Texas. And yet, it's Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
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