Funviralpark Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear that the Republican Party will not accept a Trump-backed candidate in 2024, citing former President Donald Trump’s waning political influence.
McConnell told NBC News that he attacked the 76-year-old former commander-in-chief, saying, “I think things have changed here. I think the former president’s political influence has diminished.”
In Wednesday’s interview, reported on Friday, the Senate Republican leader added that the Republican Party would “aggressively seek quality candidates” for the 2024 primary, adding that the party would be “distributed to us.” They are less likely to accept cards that may be,” he added.
McConnell faces criticism for not directing the Senate Leadership Fund’s Super PAC to intervene in the 2022 Senate primary, in which a seemingly flawed Trump-backed candidate won the primary and lost the general election. doing.
McConnell told NBC News that only Missouri, where scandal-plagued Eric Gleitens was battling Eric Schmidt, and Alabama, where Rep. His super pack could intervene.
“In other states, Trump’s support was very high. We could have spent a lot of money, and maybe even tried to find another candidate and wouldn’t have succeeded,” he said. Said. “And my conclusion was that elsewhere, you have to play with the cards you are dealt.”
With Trump announcing that he will run for the White House again in 2024, McConnell hopes it means “less potential interference” in the next cycle’s primaries.
“We can do a better job with less potential interference,” he said. “The former president may have other things to do.”
McConnell also accused Trump of damaging the image of the Republican Party among non-general Republican voters.
“We lost the support we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, mostly related to the view they had of us as a party.” And even though a subset of voters didn’t approve of President Biden, they didn’t give us enough credibility to get the majority we needed.”
Earlier this week, McConnell attacked the former president yet again, but still said he would endorse him if he was elected as the Republican presidential nominee, and said after the Jan. The whole country knows what’s going on.” A House Select Committee has referred criminal charges against Trump to the Justice Department.
