McConnell Hedges Bets on Whether GOP Can Retake Senate in 2023

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The November midterms may not return control of the Senate to Republicans, their leader in the chamber Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, in an interview with Fox News.

While polls indicate the GOP has a commanding lead in races that will allow them to gain a majority in the House of Representatives, several of their Senate candidates are stumbling, and McConnell predicted whoever ends up controlling the upper chamber will likely do so only with a slim margin.

“I think it’s going to be very tight. We have a 50-50 Senate now, we have a 50-50 nation. And I think when this Senate race smoke clears, we’re likely to have a very, very close Senate still, with either us up slightly or the Democrats up slightly,” McConnell said.

A Republican majority in the House would nonetheless be enough to frustrate the Biden administration’s efforts to pass major legislation through Congress, though in the interview, McConnell signaled openness to working with the White House, to a degree.

“We’ll be looking for things that we can do for the country no matter who’s in the White House but I think you can say this: if there’s a Republican House and Senate next year, Joe Biden will finally become the moderate he promised the American people he would be when he ran for president, because he would have no choice,” McConnell said.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I hope republicans vote him out of office

 

[Webster]

I hope republicans vote him out of office

He's up in 2026; I doubt he'll run again.

That said, I also doubt they'll try and defeat him as Majority Leader should Republicans retake the Senate; as the saying goes, "You come at the king, you best not miss".

They don't call him Cocaine Mitch for nothing; the man has ice-water in his veins and they swing at him and miss, he'll bury their asses afterward.