In the midst of a very loud war of words between the most powerful Republican leader in Congress and the most popular and influential Republican politician among the party’s base, the president of the Republican Party’s re-election arm in the Senate wants unity, while Republicans intend to win back the majority of the House next year.
Senator Rick Scott of Florida, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), is silent in the midst of a fight between former President Trump and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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“President Scott’s goal is to win back the Senate, and the only way to do that is with everyone working together,” a source with knowledge of the senator’s thought told Fox News. “And that includes leader McConnell and Trump. That’s where Scott’s focus is”
McConnell voted on Saturday to acquit the former president – who was impeached last month on a charge of inciting the January 6 US Capitol insurrection by right-wing extremists and other Trump supporters with the aim of interrupting Congressional certification. the victory of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College.
But McConnell disemboweled Trump in a Senate speech minutes after the trial ended. And he did it again on Monday, writing in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal: “There is no doubt that former President Trump has moral responsibility. His supporters invaded the Capitol because of the unbalanced falsehoods he shouted at biggest megaphone in the world. His behavior during and after the chaos was also unfair. “
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Trump responded with a blunt statement on Tuesday, calling McConnell a “severe, taciturn and serious political hack” and arguing that the Republican Party “would never again be respected or strong” with McConnell at his command.
Trump promises to continue to be the dominant figure in the Republican Party and promises to support his main opponents against Republicans who opposed him and who are running for re-election in 2022.
The fight also comes when Trump flirts with a presidential race in 2024 to try to return to the White House, and as the latest opinion polls indicate that the former president remains extremely popular with Republican voters.
Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., emphasized on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Monday that his father “will continue to push America’s agenda … He will push for candidates to do that, not them establishment guys. “
And Trump’s longtime political adviser Corey Lewandowski told Fox News recently that the former president would be “actively involved” in the main challenges to Republicans who opposed him.
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But McConnell, in two post-impeachment trial interviews, joked that he can cross Trump’s path when it comes to the Republican Party’s next Senate primaries.
“My goal is, in every way possible, to have nominated representatives of the Republican Party who can win in November,” McConnell told Politico on Saturday. “Some of them may be people the ex-president likes. Some may not be. The only thing that interests me is eligibility.”
The key to winning in 2022 is “getting candidates who can really win,” McConnell told the Wall Street Journal in a separate news item published this week. “It may or may not involve trying to affect the outcome of the primaries.”
McConnell’s comments fuel speculation that the Senate’s primary clashes in the next year and a half could turn into a power struggle between Trump and the Republican Party’s anti-Trump factions – and that will surely make life uncomfortable for Republicans of the Senate running in 2022.
Two longtime Republican senators who are running for reelection next year are already in Trump’s sights. They are Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted to condemn Trump, and the second Republican in the House, Senator John Thune of South Dakota, who criticized Trump’s unsuccessful actions to try to overthrow Biden’s victory.
Scott pointed out in an interview with Fox News last month that NRSC “will clearly support our incumbents”.
And the source emphasized that Scott remains committed to supporting those running for re-election, adding that “nothing that happened last week has changed his view.”
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Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, running for re-election in 2022, advised to avoid destructive struggles in Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday. “If we get into personality disputes and fights, we will be in a challenging place in 2022 and 2024 – which means that America will be embracing socialism because we cannot act together in the right way,” he said. But he added that Trump is “the most powerful political figure on both sides”.
Veteran Republican strategist Brian Walsh told Fox News that “it’s too early to say” whether the Trump-McConnell confrontation will have a lasting impact on the Republican Party’s efforts to regain control of the Senate that the party just lost in the 2020 election cycle .
“There is no one who works harder and is more focused on winning back the Republican majority than Mitch McConnell,” noted Walsh, a former Republican leadership adviser in the Senate who also served as director of communications for the NRSC.
“No one should forget that he already helped win the Senate majority in 2014 without Donald Trump,” he said. “The ball is largely on the ex-president’s court, whether he wants to help Republicans win in 2022 or focus on the types of personal complaints that cost Republicans the two seats in the Georgia Senate and the majority in January.”
Senate Democrats, who hope to defend and even expand their fragile majority – the Senate is split 50/50 between the two parties, but Democrats control the chamber due to Vice President Kamala Harris’ decisive vote in her role as Senate President – seems to be enjoying the Trump-McConnell confrontation.
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“Rick Scott and other Republicans are desperate to hide their position because they know the party is bitterly divided between McConnell’s toxic policy in Washington and Trump’s unbalanced conspiracy theories, but they can’t have it both ways,” the Committee accused. Senate Campaign Campaign Stewart Boss spokesperson.