Former U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued a statement denouncing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell as a “depressed second-rate politician”, the two were once a cooperative and harmonious partner, to last year after the election relationship turned sour, the Republican Party has the weight of infighting between party members, is bound to affect the deployment of the Republican Party in the 2022 congressional midterm elections. The Republican Party’s Gold owners also have mixed views, and most avoid expressing their positions publicly.
Senator: McConnell is essential to Trump’s success
Karl Rove, a George W. Bush think tank once described as the “Bush brain,” said bluntly, “Without a strong Senate leader, Trump can’t achieve his goals.” Trump even described McConnell in 2019 as “leadership that is critical to our success,” praising his contributions to the country.
Before the 2016 election, the most senior justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Scalia (Antonin Scalia), died suddenly in February, making the original majority of five seats of conservatives, and liberals to form a 4 to 4 balance of power. President Barack Obama originally sought to install an additional liberal judge as his successor, but was blocked by McConnell and the Republican majority in the Senate.
The choice of judges became one of the focal points of that year’s election campaign, some evangelicals and conservatives worried that Trump would choose a liberal judge, but Trump and his legal team put together a list of judges, promising that he would choose a judge from a conservative position. Trump had said at the White House after his election, “This is something that really, really has an impact on the general election.”
As Senate majority leader, McConnell has also been very supportive of Trump, such as passing a tax bill in 2017 and fast-tracking the first presidential impeachment. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) also described, “McConnell has been integral to Trump’s success.”
After last year’s presidential election, the relationship took a sharp turn for the worse
After last year’s presidential election, Trump refused to accept the results and claimed that there was election fraud. McConnell has also been on the same page with Trump, did not take a position early on to endorse Biden‘s victory, remained silent until the day after the electoral votes were confirmed on Dec. 14, McConnell opened his mouth to congratulate Biden and He Jinli by acknowledging the Democratic Party’s victory.
However, after the election, their views diverge, McConnell will focus on the 2022 midterm elections to regain control of the Senate, but Trump is still stuck on the results of the 2020 election. Until McConnell voted “not guilty” in the impeachment case on Saturday, but criticized Trump for negligence before the impact on Congress, to “provoke” the events of the day on moral and substantive responsibility, the relationship between the two more broken.
The owner of the money did not dare to take a stand
Trump and McConnell’s tug of war surfaced, but also let the Republican Party’s gold owners face a choice, whether to support Trump’s nominated candidates, or to support McConnell’s line, that is, to keep a distance from Trump. North Carolina Senator Burr (Richard Burr) and Pennsylvania Senator Toomey (Pat Toomey), the two Republicans in the impeachment case, will no longer seek re-election, on behalf of the two swing states in the 2022 midterm elections, the need for internal elections to elect candidates.
The Hill reported that many gold owners chose to avoid expressing their positions publicly, with one stating, “I think as long as the Republicans talk about the primaries and not the policies of Biden and the Democrats, we’re going to lose [the election].” Some gold owners also expressed doubts about whether Trump-backed candidates could win in swing states. One longtime Republican gold owner said, “I don’t think McConnell believes he can win 51 Senate seats on Trump.” This gold owner believes that McConnell’s strategy is to ignore Trump so as not to over-embrace Trump as he did in the general election, resulting in Republican defeat in the suburbs.
However, Trump supporters will still have plenty of Time to plan the next deployment and mobilize support for Trump before the next election. Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is expected to run for the nomination for the North Carolina Senate seat, and Trump ally and Republican Senator Graham called Lara on Saturday to praise her as the “future of the Republican Party. He said in an interview: “I think the biggest winner of the whole impeachment trial is Nara, my dear friend Burr …… almost made Nara a sure candidate for the North Carolina Senate, enough to replace him.”
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