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Following the Midterms, Republicans Are Spiraling.
I love watching them fight.
Ah, I love to hear about Republican infighting.
Following the midterms, it’s been both fascinating and satisfying to watch both the pro-Trump and anti-Trump lawmakers and pundits attempt to cast blame following an incredibly disappointing and lackluster election for the Republican Party. And now, we’re getting some insight into what happened leading up to it.
Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles, Isaac Arnsdorf, and Tyler Pager with The Washington Post write:
“…In the weeks that followed that August lunch, the uneasy public truce between McConnell and Scott, the head of the NRSC, essentially collapsed. Major donors failed to fulfill their fall pledges to the NRSC, as the SLF accounts swelled. McConnell publicly raised concerns about candidates backed by Trump, while privately fuming about being cut out of NRSC strategy discussions. Aides to both men clashed over where to spend money and over Scott’s personal policy agenda, which included a politically toxic proposal to reauthorize Social Security every five years.
“They made it very clear early on they were not going to include anybody in their strategy, leadership or not,” Josh Holmes, a strategist close to McConnell, said of the NRSC. “So McConnell…
