The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) gave Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) a "conservative rating" ...
McConnell said, “Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.” (The GOP was fielding some far-out types that year.) Many Republicans were furious at McConnell for his remark.
Senate Republicans may win back the chamber in November because they finally learned some lessons from election losses.
As the party has increasingly scorned electability as a desirable quality for candidates, McConnell has persisted in boosting candidates who he believed could win statewide victories. That has ...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the race to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should not be a major ...
The only thing McConnell objected to about this process is that many of the Trump loyalists polled poorly with the public: He called this a “candidate-quality” problem — the risk of losing ...
Yet Sen. McConnell has previously been critical about the quality of candidate his party has fielded under Mr. Trump — and voters have vindicated his assessment. Republicans have failed in the ...
Even before Election Day, McConnell warned, “candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.” McConnell now proudly praises Daines’s accomplishments. “I think we’ve got a good shot a ...
Debate over whether Sotomayor should retire reveals control of both the White House and Senate may be necessary to confirm ...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) announcement Wednesday that he would retire as Senate GOP leader follows a long-running feud with former President Donald Trump, who has ...