You don’t elect them. Moreover, you sure don’t elect lifelong liberals like Donald Trump who, during an election cycle, say what conservatives want to hear.
“you sure don’t elect lifelong liberals like Donald Trump who, during an election cycle, say what conservatives want to hear.”
As opposed to electing eGOP that does the exact same thing?
The tweet that you posted shows Trump supporting McConnell for Senate in 2014. We now know that McConnell campaigned on a package of lies about what he would do.
The question is what are you supposed to do if you're being lied to? Trump obviously believed McConnell in 2014. You can vote them out next time, but the dirty deed is done this time. Do you hold their endorsement against them even though they were lied to?
I will say that many of us here didn't trust McConnell due to his feckless performance as minority leader, and wanted him out of leadership when Republicans retook the Senate. We didn't want him out of the Senate because we hated him, but we saw his defeat as the only way to keep him from becoming the majority leader since he wouldn't step aside and groom someone younger.
Many of us are tired of Senators dying in office, and I posted that it would be a great opportunity for McConnell to become a kingmaker in the party, grooming the next generation of party leadership. When it was clear from the Mississippi primary that McConnell would do *anything* to retain his own power, the tide of sentiment turned against McConnell and ousting him entirely from the Senate became the only option.
Was Trump following Mississippi that closely and knew of McConnell and Barbour's racist involvement when he tweeted that in September? I don't know.
-PJ