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GOP Disarray: Trump calls Mitch `the worst', Oz backs off Big Lie, Barr says judge's ruling 'flawed' [1]
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Date: 2022-09-06
Trump: Mitch McConnell is "one of the worst and most unpopular politicians in the U.S."
Donald Trump is biting the hand of Mitch McConnell who fed him judges like Aileen Connell, who granted the request of the former guy’s legal team that a “special master” be appointed to review the documents found during last month’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
What’s got Trump all riled up is that McConnell is backing Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Senate race. Murkowski infuriated Trump when she voted to convict him of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection in his second Senate impeachment trial.
Trump actually posted something on his failing Truth Social platform that we can actually agree with. He called McConnell “one of the worst and most unpopular politicians in the U.S.”
But then Trump went on to rage that the Senate Minority leader is “the man that gave the Radical Left Democrats Trillions of Dollars for their Green New Deal Fake Infrastructure Bill (9% Infrastructure) without so much as a fight, is spending a fortune of donor’s money (the only way he holds power!) on pushing Left Wing Alaska hater Lisa Murkowski rather than great Republican candidate Kelly Tshibaka -- a close race."
Murkowski and Tschibaka both advanced to the November general election in Alaska’s Senate primary last month. A little-known Democrat Patricia Chesbro and another Republican Buzz Kelley also advanced to the four-candidate ranked-choice November ballot.
Murkowski is the only Senate Republican on the ballot in the 2022 midterms who voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial. She also supports abortion rights. The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with McConnell, booked more than $7 million worth of ad time to support Murkowski.
Tshibaka is a pro-Trump, anti-abortion, “America First” candidate who has questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. She has said that if elected she won’t support McConnell for majority leader.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, an increasingly desperate Mehmet Oz actually tried to distance himself from Trump. But it’s probably too little, too late for the New Jerseyan to appeal to moderates after being repeatedly trolled by Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman.
At a press conference Tuesday, Oz backed away from the Big Lie. Asked if he would have voted to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election had he been in the Senate at the time, Oz said.
“I would not have objected to it. By the time the delegates and those reports were sent to the U.S. Senate, our job was to approve it, which is what I would have done.”
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