Trump says McConnell 'should be replaced' as the Senate GOP leader 'ASAP' as the chamber's Republicans largely shrug
By insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman)
Former President Trump has so far been unsuccessful at challenging McConnell's leadership post.
A Politico report describes how there is little appetite among GOP senators to oust McConnell.
Only two major GOP Senate candidates running in 2022 have explicitly called for new leadership.
For months, former President Donald Trump has been angling to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as the top Republican in the upper chamber.
After Trump's second impeachment trial for "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the January 6 riot, McConnell declined to find the president guilty, but scolded him on the Senate floor. While McConnell later said that he would support Trump if he emerged as the GOP presidential nominee in 2024, the speech changed the relationship between the two men for the worse.
Despite Trump's enormous influence among the Republican base, his efforts to pressure lawmakers to dislodge McConnell have so far failed to take off, as GOP members have continued to overwhelmingly back the veteran senator, according to a Politico report.
Months of attacks from the former president — which included calling McConnell an "Old Crow" and blasting his vote for President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure framework — have only yielded two firm pledges from GOP candidates to oust the Kentucky Republican as the leader of the party's caucus, a post that he has held since 2007.
No GOP senator has currently gone on record opposing McConnell as Senate leader — especially as the party seeks to regain congressional majorities in 2022 — and no challengers have emerged from the ranks of the upper chamber. There is simply no appetite for such a fight, with the prospect of such a challenge eliciting shrugs, despite Trump's entreaties, according to the report.
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