Trump responded to the criticism and released a statement attacking McConnell and his leadership in the Senate.
“McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse,” Trump wrote.
In the February poll, only 21 percent of Republican voters said they had heard about Trump’s criticisms of McConnell.
Since that time, Trump has issued a number of other statements calling for McConnell to be ousted from Senate leadership.
According to the Morning Consult poll, 43 percent of Republicans have never heard Trump say McConnell should be replaced in Senate leadership.
It seems as though the Republican Party is trying to identify what it stands for. And they re in the midst of significant sort of mini-revolution going on in the Republican Party, Biden told reporters after giving remarks on aid for restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic. I’ve been a Democrat for a long time. We ve gone through periods where we’ve had internal fights, disagreements. I don’t remember any like this, he added. We badly need a Republican Party. We need a two-party system. It’s not healthy to have a one-party system. And I think the Republicans are further away from trying to figure out who they are and what they stand for than I thought they would be at this point.
Asked if he was going to step in to try to help Cheney keep her post, McConnell told reporters in Kentucky that 100 percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration. I think the best way to look at what this new administration the president may have won the nomination, but Bernie Sanders
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Pressed if he was concerned that a sizable portion of the GOP base believes the 2020 election was stolen a false claim dismissed by election experts but spread by the former president McConnell pivoted again. One hundred percent of my focus is on standing up to this administration. . What we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins
“Any elected official should stand their ground. If you feel firmly about something, you should stand your ground, Ernst told Politico. But I also believe that we need to come together as a party, recognize we have differences within the party but the goal with us should be to win seats.
Ernst serves as vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference, making her one of only two women in GOP leadership in Congress, along with Cheney.
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Cheney has faced a barrage of criticism and calls for her to be removed from House leadership after defending her vote to impeach former President Trump
“A Republican group came to see me, and they started off at $600 billion, and that was it,” Biden told reporters Wednesday when asked if he would fail to fulfill his promise of bringing bipartisanship to Washington if Republicans again vote in unison against his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan.
The president said he was prepared to craft a bipartisan pandemic relief package but Republican lawmakers refused to give any ground.
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“I would’ve been prepared to compromise, but they didn’t. They didn’t move an inch. Not an inch,” he said.
The GOP senators noted Wednesday that their $618 billion proposal “included the core COVID relief elements of the Biden administration’s plan,” such as providing $160 billion to support vaccines and testing.