McConnell: Midterms will be 'very challenging' for GOP

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McConnell: Midterms will be 'very challenging' for GOP
By Jordain Carney - 05/17/18 05:59 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the midterm elections will be "very challenging" for Republicans, predicting that both chambers are in play.

"I think the safest place to be is just to say that this is going to be a very challenging election, and I don’t think we know in May ... whether it’s Category 3, 4 or 5," he told The Washington Post.

He added that, historically, the party in power loses seats during off-year elections.

“It’s pretty hard to deny the history of off-year elections, particularly off-year elections two years into the first term,” McConnell said.

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[Free Vulcan]

Spare me the hedging Turtle man. YOU have more power than almost anyone to achieve victory. You are not a third party bystander with no control over the situation.

All you need to do, is do.

[Wingnut]

Touche Turtle is always a beacon for optimism in all things election related.  /s

[Bigun]

What a worthless POS he is!

[skeeter]

Is he speaking of the GOP that is more comfortable in the minority kvetching about those durn libruls?

Or the GOP thats supposed to be offering the American people a real alternative to the left?

[edpc]

They wouldn't be challenging at all, if he could have delivered the same votes he rounded up prior to Jan 2017.

[Wingnut]

What a worthless POS he is!

And a dickless fellow to boot.

[libertybele]

What a worthless POS he is!

 

[240B]

Well, the fact that I think of McConnell as a corrupt slimy weasel doesn't mean that what he is saying is wrong. I would much rather hear all the Republicans speak this way, rather than to do a Hillary and convince all the voters that there is no need to vote because we have it locked up.

The best thing Republicans can do from now until the election is to convince the base that without their vote Pelosi becomes speaker and Trump will be shut down with stupid distractions and sabotage for the rest of his term.

[sneakypete]

Is he speaking of the GOP that is more comfortable in the minority kvetching about those durn libruls?

@skeeter

Yes,it is the only one he knows anything about.

Or the GOP thats supposed to be offering the American people a real alternative to the left?

I've heard rumors about THAT GOP,but I think it must have been before my time.

[libertybele]

Well, the fact that I think of McConnell as a corrupt slimy weasel doesn't mean that what he is saying is wrong. I would much rather hear all the Republicans speak this way, rather than to do a Hillary and convince all the voters that there is no need to vote because we have it locked up.

The best thing Republicans can do from now until the election is to convince the base that without their vote Pelosi becomes speaker and Trump will be shut down with stupid distractions and sabotage for the rest of his term.

This is true, however, it is McConnell himself that derails the conservative agenda and does everything he can to insure that conservatives don't make it past the front door!

[Applewood]

If the midterm elections are challenging, it's because McConnell and the rest of the lying jackasses in both houses of congress lied to the voters and had no intention of delivering on the promises they made to those voters. 

In other words, Mitch, if your party loses its majority in both houses, it's your fault.  A little too late to start crying the blues.

Honestly though, I think this concern is phony.  Most of these bums are closet Democrats anyway.  And if the real Democrats should win the midterms, it takes the pressure off the Democrat-lites to deliver.

[txradioguy]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the midterm elections will be "very challenging" for Republicans, predicting that both chambers are in play.

In no small part because of your piss poor leadership Senator McConnell

[libertybele]

If the midterm elections are challenging, it's because McConnell and the rest of the lying jackasses in both houses of congress lied to the voters and had no intention of delivering on the promises they made to those voters. 

In other words, Mitch, if your party loses its majority in both houses, it's your fault.  A little too late to start crying the blues.

Honestly though, I think this concern is phony.  Most of these bums are closet Democrats anyway.  And if the real Democrats should win the midterms, it takes the pressure off the Democrat-lites to deliver.

McConnell has been known to work with the NRSC to keep his incumbents in the Senate and to work towards not letting in conservatives. Which is of the reasons he dislikes Cruz so much; Cruz made it in and refuses to play his game.

[Emjay]

What a worthless POS he is!

@Bigun I don't think McConnell even cares as long as he can retain his own worthless power.

[Bigun]

@Bigun I don't think McConnell even cares as long as he can retain his own worthless power.

He absolutely doesn't care about anything other than protecting his precious swamp and he will do that at all costs!

[sneakypete]

@Bigun I don't think McConnell even cares as long as he can retain his own worthless power.

@Emjay

Not true. He also has to worry about keeping the Asian baglady he is married to connected to the DC in-crowd jobs so they have a place to funnel the pay-offs.

Or maybe she married the old fart for luv? Kinda convenient that they can't be forced to testify against each other,ain't it?

Bob Dolt had the same sort of thing going with Giddy.

[corbe]

   All the Coke Heads I ever met were assholes.

[GrouchoTex]

McConnell has been known to work with the NRSC to keep his incumbents in the Senate and to work towards not letting in conservatives. Which is of the reasons he dislikes Cruz so much; Cruz made it in and refuses to play his game.

...and in turn, would by why the "Midterms will be very challenging for the GOP."
If more conservatives were there, I would hope, we would have had a better legislative outcome than we have had, since McConnell became majority leader.
The better the outcome,the easier and more likely it would be to retain the House and Senate.