Posted on 03/21/2022 5:11:14 PM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told The Hill on Wednesday that she will make a bid to join Senate Republican leadership starting in 2023.
Capito, who currently serves as an adviser to Senate GOP leadership, said that she will run to be vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference.
"I will be seeking to join the elected leadership team. ... I just think I have a good sense of American families and voices of West Virginians and also what the conference is thinking," Capito told The Hill.
Capito, 68, is an ally of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and has held her current position as a counselor to leadership since 2015. The position, while unelected, gives her a seat at Monday night leadership meetings.
But going for the No. 5 spot would require her to be elected by the Senate Republican Conference when it holds leadership elections for the 118th Congress later this year. Senate leadership elections aren't expected to take place until after the November midterm elections, with the new leadership team taking over at the start of the new Congress in January.
Capito said that she viewed the vice chair spot largely as a "communications position," and the role comes with increased visibility including appearing with McConnell and other members of GOP leadership at a weekly press conference. It would also come as the party has been locked in a rolling, and sometimes public, discussion about its direction in the wake of the 2020 elections, when they lost control of the White House and the Senate.
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They're all the same.
Bush League Republicans are the only ones allowed in leadership.
We will not get new leadership until WE change the membership.
We will never Make America Great Again by re-electing Assistant Democrats.
Truly the worst excuse for a political party imaginable.
“We will not get new leadership until WE change the membership.
We will never Make America Great Again by re-electing Assistant Democrats.” 100% correct. Our biggest obstacle to what you’ve correctly pointed out is, Low Information Voter republicans. They pay little attention to politics between election cycles. And, they are usually just voting for the R who has the most name recognition.
Rush pointed this out repeatedly over the years. He stated that no external enemy can destroy our country but, if it happens it will be due to the Complacency of the American citizens.
Boy...that's really aiming high there...
I doubt that I will vote for Shelly again. I’ve known her personally for many years. I am not well pleased with her “growing” expansion into RINO world.
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