Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is asking on Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the 2 frontrunners to succeed Senate Republican Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), to push again on McConnell’s sharp criticisms of Donald Trump.
Lee accused McConnell of “sabotage” after media shops reported the GOP chief’s sharp criticisms of Trump in a soon-to-be-released biography.
“Those running for Senate GOP leadership posts need to weigh in on this & commit never to sabotage Republican candidates & colleagues — particularly those who are less than two weeks away from a close election,” Lee posted on the social media website X.
“We must have clarity from the candidates running to replace McConnell on where thye stand on these attacks. They must be clear on how they plan to lead the conference, and on the role of its members,” Lee posted.
“The Senate Republican leader is supposed to help Republicans, not undermine them. Sadly, we’ve had too much of the latter. That must end now,” he wrote.
Lee known as on his colleagues to push again on McConnell, who informed an oral historian after the 2020 election that he considered Trump as “stupid as well as being ill-tempered.”
“He also called him “a despicable human being” and a narcissist, in response to the biography, “The Price of Power,” by Michael Tackett, the deputy Washington bureau chief of the Related Press.
McConnel argued on the time that Trump’s “MAGA movement is completely wrong.”
“I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn’t recognize today,” McConnell mentioned, in response to excerpts of the biography reported by CNN Thursday.
“Trump is appealing to people who haven’t been as successful as other people and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow … cheated and you don’t deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven’t been fair,” McConnell mentioned.
McConnell, who will retire from Senate management submit on the finish of the yr, defended his statements this month by noting that Trump’s closest allies, together with his operating mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have criticized Trump sharply previously.
“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now,” he mentioned in a press release earlier this month.
Vance, who mocked Trump as an “idiot” and “reprehensible” earlier than the 2016 presidential election, now says he was mistaken about Trump and praised him as “very brilliant” at a city corridor in Detroit hosted by NewsNation Thursday.
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