Donald Trump has scored endorsements from a good number of Republican lawmakers at both the state and federal level, but there are also plenty of Republicans that have either spoken out against Trump being the Republican nominee, or those who have avoided the issue altogether. One of those people is Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who has made it clear that he thinks Trump cost the Party the 2022 midterms. But that didn't stop McConnell from saying in a recent interview that he'll back "whoever" the Party has as their nominee in 2024, no matter what. This is proof that Republicans will eventually rally around Trump, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
Link - https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/politics/mitch-mcconnell-interview-2024-senate-map/index.html
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
In their constant shift to the right. CNN this week decided to run a very lengthy profile of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. And most of it was fluff. Most of it was stuff that we had already heard McConnell say before. Like, oh dear. Part of the problem of 2022 was that we let Donald Trump kind of have the steering wheel and the primaries, and we sat out. He picked bad people and it cost us big time. But there was one sentence, there was one sentence in this lengthy profile that stood out to me as something that everybody needs to pay attention to because it tells us what's going to happen in the future. Mitch McConnell may not realize this, but he is a bit of a fortune teller with this one quote that he had. And before I read you the quote, I'm gonna remind you of the fact that throughout all of Donald Trump's turmoil over the last two years, Mitch McConnell has kept his mouth shut a couple of times.
Sure he is come out and gone after Donald Trump. You know, mostly about the midterm stuff and the bad candidates. Uh, he's made it clear he is not a huge fan of the guy. I mean, Donald Trump has insulted Mitch McConnell, the old Crow. He calls him. He's launched racist attacks against Mitch McConnell's wife. So you would think that Mitch McConnell is absolutely done with Donald Trump no matter what, but he's not, let me read you the quote. Look, I'm going to support the nominee of our party for president no matter who that may be would, which means if it's Trump, by God, Mitch McConnell is going to support Donald J. Trump for president. Doesn't matter that he spent the last year personally attacking actually two years, I think at this point, personally attacking him personally, attacking his wife, trying to make his life a living hell, trying to get Rick Scott to take over for McConnell in the Senate.
McConnell says, I don't care. I'll still vote for Trump because I'm a partisan hack and will vote for anybody with an R next to their name. And what this says to me is that even though right now we see a lot of Republicans endorsing Trump, we see a lot of Republicans out there saying, I want nothing to do with Trump. But when it's all said and done, if Trump is the nominee, even those never Trump Republicans out there, they're gonna vote for Trump. They're gonna rally behind him. Now, they may not show up at his rallies. They may not have MAGA flags in their front yard. Hell, they may even go out in the media and talk bad about 'em a couple times. But at the end of the day, when these a-holes walk into that voting booth, they're gonna fill in the box or complete the line, or pull the lever
For Donald Trump. Even if they tell us they won't, I promise you, we will see all of these Republicans line up behind Donald Trump, some with their head held low, some with it held high, but they are not going to not vote for him. That's what this quote from Mitch McConnell tells me. Now, I'm only referring to the people in power, right? The people in Washington dc, the average voters out there, the Nevertrump voters out there, I don't think they're gonna do the same thing. That's why I think the Republican Party is in for a rude awakening. That's also why I think that the polls that are coming out right now are pretty much meaningless.
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