'We've Been Liberated': McConnell Allies Say Former Top GOP Senator Is Now A Wild Card In Tanking Trump's Appointments

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Source: MEDIAite

Nov 15th, 2024, 6:05 pm


Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is no longer a member of the GOP leadership in the U.S. Senate – for the first time since 2003. Punchbowl News asked on Friday if this means that McConnell is “finally a free agent?” and speculated as to whether or not the Kentucky senator would try and scuttle some of President-elect Donald Trump’s more shocking cabinet picks.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who is also out of senate leadership having lost the race to replace McConnell, told Punchbowl, “He and I both agree we’ve been liberated.”

“But I know how strongly [McConnell] feels about foreign policy and national security matters. I agree with him on that,” Cornyn said when asked about McConnell’s vow to continue to vocally oppose Trump’s more isolationist rhetoric on foreign policy. Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio and Max Cohen reported:

There’s a belief that if McConnell opposes [Tulsi] Gabbard’s nomination, it could provide cover to other Senate Republicans who align with his foreign policy views. With a 53-47 margin, Trump can only afford to lose three Republican votes, assuming there’s full attendance.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), a close ally of McConnell who has already come out against Matt Gaetz for AG, told Punchbowl, “I’m sure he won’t try to second-guess the new leader or undermine Sen. Thune in any way. But it’s just natural that he will have well-developed ideas and strategies on a host of issues and that members want to hear that.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/weve-been-liberated-mcconnell-allies-say-former-top-gop-senator-is-now-a-wild-card-in-tanking-trumps-appointments/

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. For every truthful thing McConnell has said about TSF he does

10 things to support him and undermine our country. Susan Collin’s and the rest of them too. They are why we are here. I don’t trust any of them.

[sop]

2. Mitch McConnell: the new Liz Cheney.

[Blue for the win]

3. Pathetic

Susan Collins will fold like a deck of cards like she always does. It's all an act that she's concerned

[dweller]

4. OMG MITCH McTURTLE UNLEASHED HIDE THE CHILDREN !1!!

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[usonian]

5. And the highest bidder us ...

Action follows auction.

[Bird Lady]

6. I won't hold out any hope.

McConnell will do anything to help save the country, since he has spent his entire tenure as leader helping to destroy it.
If he is faced with the hell drump will unleash on him. You'll see he will soon have his lips all over drumps
ass.

[republianmushroom]

7. We shall see if this is true.

[groundloop]

8. Fuck McTurtle, it's largely his fault we're here.

It's totally on McTurtle that we have the current Supreme Court, and indirectly it's his fault that Merrick Garland is Attorney General instead of holding down a nice comfortable Supreme Court job where he could have afforded to take his sweet time on everything.