Mitch McConnell

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told an audience in Kentucky on Monday that he expects the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections "to be very, ...

"Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome." I mean, we saw between the November 3 and January 20 changing of one administration for another, there were those who were trying to prevent the orderly transfer of power for the first time in American history. "Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate. Asked later to elaborate, the Kentucky Republican said, "Well, Senate races are statewide. Twenty of my members up and only 14 of the Democrats, so that's to their advantage. . But he said during the event, "flipping the Senate -- what are the chances?

Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have again publicly split -- this time over the GOP's chances of retaking Congress in November.

"When I got into this race, I got in this race to win it for the people. I said, 'Guys, I'm here for the people of Georgia.' I'm not worried about what people say." Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we're likely to have an extremely close Senate," McConnell said. Among the Trump-boosted hopefuls this year are Dr. Moore narrowly lost to Democrat Doug Jones. "I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate …

Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, also said that voter fraud was rare, a contrast to false claims by former President Donald J. Trump of ...

Mr. democracy and his party’s prospects in November came about a week after he suggested that McConnell’s portrayal of election fraud as a minor issue could antagonize Mr. Even Republicans who do not embrace Mr. McConnell’s remarks about the state of U.S. [recording](https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=782068783043412) of his remarks from ABC News that contains some brief gaps in audio and video, Mr. McConnell did not appear to specify whether he was referring to a lack of fraud in Kentucky or the whole United States — and a spokesman for Mr. McConnell brought up the issue of election fraud in response to the same question. “That was not good. “Our democracy is solid,” Mr. “And I don’t think — of the things that we need to worry about, I wouldn’t be worried about that one.” [chamber of commerce luncheon in Scott County, Ky.](https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=782068783043412), Mr.

RightForge founding partner Chris Bedford explained why the political division between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald ...

[all the donations](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-fundraising-committees-hauled-17-million-past-three-months) that are to going to President Trump? [Mitch McConnell](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-says-mitch-mcconnell-should-more-help-republicans-get-elected-broken-down-political-hack) wanted to do. CAROLYN MALONEY IN PRIMARY FOR NEW YORK'S 12TH DISTRICT](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-jerry-nadler-defeats-fellow-democratic-rep-carolyn-maloney-primary-new-york-12th-district)

Asked if he had any reaction to Donald Trump insulting the woman he is married to, the Kentucky Republican simply responded, “No.”

[In a post on Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108858312481973600) on Saturday, the former president called the [Senate minority leader](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-broken-down-hack-mitch-mcconnell-gop-senate-candidates_n_6302b2a3e4b0f7df9bb16a3a) a “broken down hack” for not fighting for Trump’s flailing Senate candidates and also called McConnell’s wife, [former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elaine-chao-resigning-transportation-secretary_n_5ff755b2c5b6fc79f4639739), “crazy.” [Mitch McConnell](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/mitch-mcconnell) is the latest Republican politician to let [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump) get away with insulting a family member. [insulted his wife](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cruz-feud-history-worst-attacks-2016-9).

Republican politician Mitch McConnell has been accused of having a 'scared' response to Donald Trump insulting his wife, former transportation secretary ...

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U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday gave his own party a 50-50 chance of taking control of the Senate in the November midterm elections, ...

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'Why do Republican senators allow a broken down hack politician ... to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates,' Trump asks.

Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” Mr McConnell previously told the press in Kentucky. “Mitch doesn’t have a clue – he is sooo bad for the Republican Party!” [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) The DOT inspector general found in 2019 that Ms Chao utilized agency staff to help the company. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. “He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!” She previously helmed the Transportation Department under President George HW Bush between 1989 and 1991 and served as the secretary of labor under President George W Bush between 2001 and 2009. Ms Chao, 69, and Mr McConnell, 80, married in 1993. This is such an affront to honor and to leadership,” Mr Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social on Saturday. [According to FiveThirtyEight,](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/) Democrats are slightly favoured to win the Senate. [Pennsylvania](/topic/pennsylvania), [Ohio](/topic/ohio), [Arizona](/topic/arizona), and [Georgia](/topic/georgia), who are trailing their Democratic opponents in the polls. [according to The Hill.](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3612585-mcconnell-asked-if-he-has-reaction-to-trumps-attack-on-wife-elaine-chao-no/)

After Biden announced $10000 in student-loan forgiveness for federal borrowers, Republicans slammed the policy, calling it unfair and costly.

"This is an important first step to provide critical relief to millions of working people struggling to make ends meet under the burden of their debt," Minnesota Rep. "It also can't be the end of this discussion. "President Biden will say and do anything to appease his radical progressive base, even if it means bankrupting our country and kneecapping taxpayers in the midst of an inflation crisis. [introduced legislation](https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-counters-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-new-bill-income-pslf-2022-8) to ban Biden from further extending the student-loan payment pause — Biden extended it on Wednesday for his fifth time, through December 31. "This policy is astonishingly unfair." While this move was lauded by many Democratic lawmakers and advocates — with some continuing to push for even more relief — Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were less than pleased with the president's announcement.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Biden's decision to cancel $10000 of student loan debt for borrowers making less than ...

[in arguing that student debt forgiveness](https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3610940-larry-summers-says-white-house-shouldnt-extend-student-loan-payment-pause/) will make inflation worse. [THE HILL TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv/) [Rising](https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/) [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Education](https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [See All](https://thehill.com) [inflation](https://thehill.com/tag/inflation/) [Joe Biden](https://thehill.com/tag/joe-biden/) [Mitch McConnell](https://thehill.com/tag/mitch-mcconnell/) [Mitch McConnell](https://thehill.com/people/mitch-mcconnell/) [Student loan forgiveness](https://thehill.com/tag/student-loan-forgiveness/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [Senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/) [See All](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/) 31, pushing back a deadline that was set to pass at the end of this month. The 40 percent of households with the lowest incomes hold just less than 20 percent of that debt. “Democrats are literally using working Americans’ money to try to buy themselves some enthusiasm from their political base.”

Five years after U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell aggressively pushed a $1.9 trillion tax cut package that disproportionately benefited ...

Free to share. Free to republish. Free to read. To inspire. "It's not a slap in the face," Jackson said. To inform.

Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't like President Joe Biden's plan to cancel some federal student loan debt. We took a look at how much Kentuckians owe.

Follow her on Twitter: @morganwatkins26. Contact her at [email protected]. - 131,100 owe $20,000 to $40,000 “When this happens, the whole economy is better off.” "Democrats specifically wrote this policy to make sure that people earning six figures would benefit. Those cuts benefited richer Americans more than average families, particularly people bringing in over $300,000,

Five years after U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell aggressively pushed a $1.9 trillion tax cut package that disproportionately benefited ...

Free to share. Free to republish. Free to read. To inspire. "It's not a slap in the face," Jackson said. To inform.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ​on Wednesday ​ripped President Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan deb.t.

This policy is astonishingly unfair,” McConnell added. [ Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ](https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-long-cancelled-student-debt-would-return)said without underlying reforms in the educational system to cut costs, the results of Biden’s debt relief would only be temporary — and that federal student loan debt would return to its current $1.6 trillion level within four years. [cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt,](https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/biden-set-to-announce-student-loan-forgiveness-for-millions/) calling it a giveaway to “elites with higher salaries” that does nothing to help working Americans who are struggling to pay their bills because of [skyrocketing inflation.](https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/inflation-surges-8-5-in-july-stoking-fears-of-stiff-rate-hike/) [Biden said that his administration ](http://https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/biden-set-to-announce-student-loan-forgiveness-for-millions/)will forgive up to $10,000 in federal loan debt for individual borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year or married couples earning less than $250,000 per year.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may not be former President Donald Trump's biggest fan, but he's hardly his wife's stalwart defender either.

If Trump accuses her of corruption, then it's a testament to his own incompetence that he appointed her at all, and it should be thrown in his face often. He attempted to circumvent the Constitution to keep Trump in power. He said Trump made things too personal when he called him “Lyin’ Ted,” insulted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and repeated discredited accusations linking Cruz’s Cuban-born father to the John F. Cruz finished second to Trump in a bitter primary battle and balked at previous promises to endorse the eventual Republican presidential nominee. “There’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” he told the group. The leader admitted in front of a group of supporters that the crop of far-right Trump acolytes currently running for office were dragging the Party’s chances.

'Why do Republican senators allow a broken down hack politician ... to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates,' Trump asks.

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks during a press conference. Republicans react to Biden's student loan forgiveness, calling 'socialism' ...

[doubles relief for recipients of federal Pell Grants](https://fortune.com/2022/08/24/biden-pell-grant-forgiveness-20000/), a type of aid that targets students with exceptional financial need. Summers, however, is not totally opposed to student loan forgiveness. “Even liberal economists warn Biden’s bailout for the rich, like lawyers who have the earning potential to pay off their loans, would only fuel more inflation.” And only 14% will go to households earning more than $141,096 per year. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. “This policy is astonishingly unfair.” [the White House wrote in a release](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most/). [about one-third of the total student loans](https://fortune.com/2022/08/24/student-loan-forgiveness-joe-biden-wipe-out-debt-nearly-half-borrowers/) forgiven will benefit households earning less than $50,795 a year, [according to a study](https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/8/23/forgiving-student-loans) by the University of Pennsylvania released yesterday. [posted a statement to his official website](https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/mcconnell-student-loan-socialism-a-slap-in-the-face-to-working-families-?peek=CKOeIKvCyef%2B4KnLpkINyOkhH7ZaQ3IeilXJd65aBHim6/b5). [Warren tweeted](https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1562464759294767111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1562464759294767111%7Ctwgr%5Ef9b84ef2e80ffa1ac0ae7bfdc0aa5b1b010d24a7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2022%2F08%2F24%2Fbiden-student-loan-forgiveness-reactions-politicians-economists-warren-sanders-cruz-mcconnell%2F). [a plan to forgive federal student loans](https://fortune.com/2022/08/24/biden-to-forgive-10000-in-student-loan-debt-heres-who-qualifies/).

WASHINGTON – In a new statement, Donald Trump is once again bashing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, former Transportation Secretary ...

Mitch McConnell is not an Opposition Leader, he is a pawn for the Democrats to get whatever they want. Back in February, CBS News reported the former president, in a private meeting at Mar-a-Lago, once again pitched Sen. "The Democrats have Mitch McConnell and his lovely wife, Elaine "Coco" Chao, over a barrel.

Former President Donald Trump calls for the ouster of his party's most powerful elected official: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Trump’s anti-McConnell rhetoric has waxed and waned ever since the Minority Leader denounced the former president for his role in the Jan. A new Republican Leader in the Senate should be picked immediately!” “He is afraid of them, and will not do what has to be done.

Former President Donald Trump's feud with Mitch McConnell turned personal this week. Trump called McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, "crazy" and "coco" in several ...

[slammed McConnell and other Republicans who backed President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-slams-mitch-mcconnell-gop-lawmakers-voted-favor-infrastructure-bill-2021-11), calling them "RINOs," an acronym for Republicans In Name Only. [called for McConnell to be replaced as Senate GOP leader](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-pawn-democrats-mcconnell-criticized-gop-senate-candidates-2022-8). Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who had [contradicted Trump's voter fraud claims](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mike-rounds-never-receive-my-endorsement-again-2020-election-2022-1). In 2016, then-presidential candidate Trump Earlier this month, CNN reported, citing anonymous sources, that Chao had spoken to the [House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot](https://www.businessinsider.com/former-transportation-secretary-elaine-chao-met-with-jan-6-committee-2022-8?r=US&IR=T). [McConnell shrugged off rumors](https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-brushes-off-trump-threats-oust-him-as-gop-leader-2022-2) that Trump might succeed in an attempt to [oust him as majority leader](https://www.businessinsider.com/lindsey-graham-wont-back-mitch-mcconnell-working-relationship-with-trump-2022-1) if the GOP were to take the Senate in the November midterms. Mitch McConnell And Elaine Chao Spent Decades Getting Rich On China." That was after Trump [called McConnell a "loser"](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-mcconnell-loser-blames-him-for-gop-senators-who-wont-back-big-lie-2022-1) for [defending](https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-defends-gop-senator-that-trump-criticized-for-saying-he-lost-the-2020-election-2022-1) GOP Sen. That same month, he also gave McConnell the moniker " [Old Crow](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/13/politics/mitch-mcconnell-old-crow/index.html)" and [accused him of "jeopardizing" other Republican senators' reelection chances](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-blasts-mcconnell-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-signing-ceremony-gop-midterms-2021-11). "The Democrats have Mitch McConnell and his lovely wife, Elaine "Coco" Chao, over a barrel," Trump [wrote on Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108880263911466699), alleging without substantiation that Chao and McConnell were being blackmailed into doing the Democratic Party's bidding. [fired shots at both McConnell and Chao](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacks-broken-down-hack-mcconnell-crazy-wife-senate-races-2022-8), who was Trump's Transportation Secretary and the [first Trump Cabinet member to resign](https://www.businessinsider.com/transportation-secretary-elaine-chao-is-resigning-after-capitol-riots-2021-1) following the Capitol riot. [post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108858312481973600) on Saturday, Trump called McConnell a "broken down hack politician," claiming without substantiation that he should spend "less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China."