Tag Archives: Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell Hospitalized After Fall At DC Hotel

NPR reports:  Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was being treated at a local hospital after he fell at a hotel Wednesday evening. The 81-year-old senator from Kentucky fell after he tripped at a hotel in Washington, D.C., his spokesman said. “This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner.” McConnell spokesman Doug Andres said in a …

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Fox Host Blames McConnell For Failing To Prevent Riot

“You have Mitch McConnell complaining about this, I recall. Let’s see here. So, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed by this. Well, if you ask me, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed. He’s a fraud, a phony and a fool. Well, somebody let down the security at that building. I don’t know if it was the chief law enforcement official there, but …

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McConnell Condemns Fox For Airing Capitol Riot Lies

The Insider reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday issued a rare rebuke to Fox News for airing selectively edited footage of the January 6 assault on the Capitol on Tucker Carlson’s show on Monday night. “With regard to the presentation on Fox News last night, I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of …

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McConnell And McCarthy Are Skipping This Year’s CPAC

The Hill reports: McConnell is not among the list of announced speakers at CPAC, though it may be unsurprising given that the Senate GOP leader has been a Trump critic and many of CPAC’s attendees are supportive of the former president. McConnell drew Trump’s ire for criticizing the former president in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, …

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Rick Scott Drops Entitlements From “Sunsetting” Plan

The Hill reports: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has amended his 12-point Rescue America plan to say that his proposal to sunset all federal legislation in five years does not apply to Social Security, Medicare or the U.S. Navy. After taking relentless fire from President Biden, Democrats and even fellow Republicans, Scott has amended Point Six of his plan, which includes …

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McConnell Tosses Scott To Wolves On Social Security

Mediaite reports: Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took aim at Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) during an interview and confirmed that President Joe Biden’s declaration that some GOP leaders want to end Social Security and Medicare was, in fact, accurate – despite loud booing and yells of “liar” from GOP members. “Biden said at the State of the Union …

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McConnell Axes Challenger Rick Scott From Committee

Fox News reports: Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rick Scott of Florida were removed from the Senate Commerce Committee, Fox News Digital has learned. Scott told Fox News Digital he blames Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for the removal. Scott said he is “not going to back down” and that he believes he “did the right thing” …

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McConnell Becomes Senate’s Longest-Serving Leader

Axios reports: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell plans to mark his tenure as the chamber’s longest-serving party leader with a speech on Tuesday afternoon paying tribute to the previous record holder: former Sen. Mike Mansfield, a Democrat from Montana. The senior senator from Kentucky, 80, will eclipse Mansfield’s 16 years as party leader on Tuesday. Along the way, McConnell has …

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McConnell Warned Of Attack On Biden’s Inauguration

Politico reports: Two days after pro-Donald Trump rioters attacked the Capitol, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien got a call from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and an aide who asked him to look into something he’d been hearing: retired military personnel sympathetic to Donald Trump might be preparing to prevent Joe Biden’s inauguration. “[H]e was concerned that there were reports …

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Carlson: Mitch McConnell Is Gay For “Hunk” Zelensky

“Here’s a picture of Zelensky that he’d taken with a group of elderly Republican senators back in May. “They stand grinning next to him in their orthopedic shoes, 70 year Susan Collins, John Barrasso, John Cornyn. Led by their 80 year old ringleader Mitch McConnell. “Forty-four-year-old Zelensky poses between them in a skin-tight polo shirt, flexing like a weight lifter …

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Carlson: Zelensky Has Declared War Against Christianity

Media Matters has the transcript: If you were a Republican office-holder and Zelensky came to Washington, maybe you would, for a moment, ask him about his current and ongoing war against Christianity in Ukraine. Especially if you were, say, Mitch McConnell or John Cornyn and a lot of your own voters go to church on Sunday. They might care about …

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McConnell Tanks Bill To Legalize Marijuana Banking

The Hill reports: Marijuana advocates and executives are up in arms after opposition from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) resulted in Congress failing to pass a key cannabis banking bill, dealing a massive blow to the industry. The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill unveiled Tuesday includes all kinds of expenditures, but it does not include the SAFE Banking Act, …

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McConnell: “Entire Nation Knows” Trump Incited Riot

The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday issued a terse response to the House Select Jan. 6 Committee’s decision to refer criminal charges against former President Trump to the Department of Justice. “The entire nation knows who is responsible for that day. Beyond that, I don’t have any immediate observations,” McConnell said in a statement reacting …

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McConnell Dodges Again On Backing Trump In 2024

Mediaite reports: “This is the second straight week you’ve come out to begin your press conference criticizing Donald Trump,” CNN’s Manu Raju told McConnell. “Can you say categorically that you would not support him if he were the Republican nominee?” McConnell declined to answer outright. “What I’m saying is, it would be pretty hard to be sworn into the presidency …

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McCarthy Warns McConnell: Don’t Work With Dems

Playbook reports: “We’re 28 days away from Republicans having the gavel. We would be stronger in every negotiation. So any Republican that’s out there trying to work with Democrats is wrong,” McCarthy said to Laura Ingraham, who used her monologue last night to rail against Democrats trying to “take advantage of the few weeks remaining to ram through as much …

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McConnell Implies Trump Has Wrecked 2024 Chances

Axios reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday “that there is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy.” “And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States,” he said during a news conference. When asked whether he would …

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Graham Attacks McConnell’s Leadership At Meeting

The Hill reports: This week’s bruising leadership fight in the Senate exposed simmering tension between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), former President Trump’s closest ally in the Senate. Graham, one of the Senate’s highest-profile Republicans, sharply criticized McConnell’s leadership of the Senate GOP conference during a private meeting this week. He then told reporters …

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Scott And McConnell Trade Insults Over Red Wave Fail

The Hill reports: An at-times nasty and personal discussion took place at the Senate GOP lunch, where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who have been at odds for months, traded recriminations over who was to blame for the GOP’s failure to win back the Senate. McConnell accused Scott of mismanaging his job at the …

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Rick Scott To Challenge McConnell For Senate Leader

NBC News reports: Sen. Rick Scott on Tuesday announced a challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell for the top Republican leadership job in the Senate during a meeting of GOP members. A spokesman for Scott, of Florida, confirmed the announcement. “Like each of you, I am deeply disappointed by the results of the recent election,” Scott told colleagues in a letter …

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Trump Again Lobs Racial Slur At McConnell’s Wife

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault. Spending money to defeat great Republican candidates instead of backing Blake Masters and others was a big mistake. Giving 4 Trillion Dollars to the Radical Left for the Green New Deal, not Infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake. He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise …

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