Republicans are hand-wringing over former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate Herschel Walker entering a critical Senate race. Surprisingly, Mitch McConnell isn’t one of them.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is flanked by reporters as he returns to the Senate chamber for a vote at the Capitol on Thursday. | Scott Applewhite/AP Phototo tangle with Trump if necessary to nominate electable GOP candidates in must-win Senate primaries, the Senate minority leader is tacitly blessing many of Trump’s endorsements. As McConnell surveys Trump’s picks in Senate battlegrounds, he's concluded that “I don't believe they're troubling.
Republicans across the country will sigh in relief at McConnell’s remarks as Trump prepares to rally with Walker in Georgia on Saturday. McConnell hasn’t personally reconciled with Trump after excoriating him for ginning up the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. But the apparent midterm clash between the two hasn't materialized and may never — even as Trump continues a push to oust McConnell as Republican leader.
And if GOP leaders have any closely held problems with any of those candidates, they aren’t serious enough to prompt an internal civil war with the former president. Republicans only need to net one seat to gain back the Senate majority, though it’s also possible they could lose seats given a map that's forcing them to defend seats in Biden-won states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. It's a less favorable battlefield than 2018's midterms, when Senate Republicans gained seats even as House Republicans were clobbered and lost the majority.
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