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| Trump is Winning The Battle Against Do Nothing McConnell in Kentucky...By A lot |
| 2017-08-24 |
| [Townhall] The battle between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell keeps escalating, with the two leaders reportedly getting into heated phone calls earlier this month about how to move a successful Republican agenda on Capitol Hill. Now, they aren't speaking. The relationship between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that Mr. Trump will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises. What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in Mr. Trump’s cabinet, according to more than a dozen people briefed on their imperiled partnership. Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense. But according to new polling, Trump is trouncing McConnell in his home state of Kentucky and overwhelmingly beats the majority leader on approval from voters. A Public Policy Polling survey found just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job McConnell is doing, compared with 74 percent who disapprove. President Trump has an approval rating of 60 percent in Kentucky. Slightly more than one-third of respondents, 36 percent, disapprove of the job the president is doing. During a town hall meeting in the Blue Grass State at the start of the August recess, McConnell said Trump had "excessive expectations" about how quickly legislation should move after an Obamacare repeal bill failed in the Senate by a single vote. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 McConnell isn't running for reelection until 2020 so he doesn't give a crap about Trump retaliating. By then Trump will retire or be neck deep in his own reelection campaign. |
| Posted by: Spereth Trotsky4095 2017-08-24 15:34 |
| #7 Is there a credible primary challenger in sight? |
| Posted by: Angoling Smith6489 2017-08-24 14:38 |
#6 President Trump is fighting
People like McConnell and Paul Ryan had absolutely no intention to work with the President. They are part of the Great Tumor of Washington, DC. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-08-24 14:29 |
| #5 Bingo Darth Vader - Term limits too. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2017-08-24 12:30 |
| #4 McConnell is a creature of the swamp and needs to be drained. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-24 12:15 |
| #3 It's uncertain that Mr. McConnell will be able to salvage his Senate seat. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-08-24 11:36 |
| #2 McConnell is on my shit list for trying to make a Sitting President fail, and more for not being hot nor cold, but luke warm. He sucks and needs to resign or thrown out. He is the Kapernick of politicians. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-08-24 01:28 |
| #1 He better because trump screwed up so bad with luther strange. What an idiot trump is sometimes. It's really Mark Levin that is making this work. Trump was useless in this race. Useless. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-08-24 00:33 |