Hawley Rips McConnell For Lack Of Senate Red Wave

Real Clear Politics reports:

Two days after Republicans dramatically underperformed in the midterms, but even as control of Congress remains too close to call, Sen. Josh Hawley has completed his autopsy and offered it to his party’s leaders for consideration. The topline: The failure is all their fault.

The Missouri populist believes the Republican Party offered voters plenty in the way of generalized gripes about Democrats and President Biden – but no actionable alternative. Hawley blames that on what he calls “Washington Republicanism,” specifically Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He also thinks it was a bad idea to talk about making changes to Social Security and Medicare.

“Republicans just said, ‘Well, the other side sucks, and Biden sucks.’ Well, no doubt! But it’s pretty hard to convince folks, particularly independent-minded ones who don’t tend to trust the process much, to vote for you, if you don’t have something affirmative to say and offer,” Hawley said in a Friday interview.

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.@PhilipWegmann did a post-election sit-down with Senator Josh Hawley. He has a culprit for the GOP’s underperformance on Tuesday, and it’s not Donald Trump. https://t.co/6LPEW80kzu

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 11, 2022