The relationship between former US President Donald Trump and the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, is anything but brilliant.
Ever since Trump became president in 2017, there have been many disagreements between the two Republican leaders, but the split then escalated. McConnell attacked Trump after the latest Supreme Court lawsuit against the former president.
Since then, the two have repeatedly strangled each other.
“This stupid asshole”
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Last weekend, Trump attacked McConnell again.
Behind closed doors in his magnificent property Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump went out to McConnell, complaining that the Democrats are tougher than the Republicans, and that they would not have accepted the result during last year’s presidential election.
– If it was Schumer (Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ leader in the Senate journ.anm.) Instead of this stupid asshole Mitch McConnell, they would never have allowed it. They would have fought against it, said Trump to cheers from the audience according to Washington Post journalist Josh Dawsey, who is among those who have followed Trump most closely in recent years.
Brutal tirade: “This stupid asshole”
McConnell would not answer questions about Trump’s tirade on Tuesday:
“What I’m concentrating on is the future,” McConnell said.
Warns the peaks
Like many other senior Americans have done before him, former US President Donald Trump has moved to Florida to spend his retirement in the sunny state. Reporters: Jesper Nordahl Finsveen and Vegard Kvaale.
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Mitch McConnell is a powerful figure in the Republican Party, and several Republicans are now warning about what the war of words between McConnell and Trump could lead to.
“When it comes to political strife, I do not see how it can help when margins are small, when you are trying to win states, and especially national elections,” Republican Senator Mike Braun told Politico.
– Did not say it very artistically
Braun talks about the US midterm elections, which will be held in November 2022.
The Democratic Party now has control over the House of Representatives, while the Senate is divided 50-50. Until next year, all seats in the House of Representatives, as well as 34 out of 100 seats in the Senate, will be up for election.
During the midterm elections, Republicans want to take back the majority, but several Republican party colleagues are now worried that the war of words between Trump and McConnell could ruin it, and divide voters.
– Truce
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Republican Senator John Thune believes Trump and McConnell will now have to reach a common agreement or talk together.
– Hopefully it will be a kind of ceasefire. It is in everyone’s interest, including his former president, if he wants to remain viable politically, and help us win the majority in 2022. And that means working with Senate Republicans, not against them, Thune told the website.
– Big boys
Transformation attracts attention
Republican and West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito also does not believe the war of words is useful to the party.
– The way I look at it, they are both big boys. They are both aiming for the same goals, namely a good result in 2022. But they will be able to find out, she says to the website.
– We have other challenges right now. If we do everything we can to work together, we will be better off, Senator Mike Rounds told the website.
Rounds adds that he was “very disappointed” when he heard Trump’s latest comment about McConnell.
Disagree
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According to the website, however, some Republicans are betting that opposition to US President Joe Biden’s agenda will be enough to win over voters.
They believe any concerns that the relationship between Trump and McConnell is cool have been blown out of proportion.
– At least we have a Mitch McConnell and we have a Donald Trump. The party can not succeed without Donald Trump, and Donald Trump can not succeed without the Republican Party, says Senator Kevin Cramer.
– Like an eight-year-old
Rick Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC), also claims to the website that the war of words between Trump and McConnell has not harmed the NRSC’s collection.
– Toxic conflict
During the federal court case against Trump in February, McConnell did not want to convict his former president, but he came up with one devastating speech in which he believed it was proven beyond any doubt that Trump was “practically and morally responsible for provoking” the violent attack on Congress on 6 January.
Later, Trump went against McConnell and referred to the Republican top as a “dull, grumpy and moody political pamp».
– Bizarre outcomes and lack of logic
Since then, they have stood on opposite sides of a divided Republican party.
– It is a much more toxic conflict within the party. The whole situation around Trump is even more explosive than previous conflicts, says US expert and author and writer Jan Arild Snoen previously stated to Dagbladet.
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