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from - http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/329403-picking-2018-candidates-pits-mcconnell-vs-gop-groupsSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and conservative groups are headed toward a showdown over GOP primaries in 2018.
McConnell has voiced confidence that Republicans will nominate “electable” candidates as they seek to grow their narrow majority during an election cycle in which Democrats will be defending 23 seats to just eight for the GOP.
The majority leader is signaling to conservative groups that he’ll play a big role in determining whom Republicans nominate to take on vulnerable Democrats in states from Florida to Montana.
“We intend to play in primaries if there’s a clear choice between someone who can win in November and someone who can’t,” McConnell said at an April 7 press conference.
Very bad news. Trump needs to put this clown down somehow. McConnell thinks an electable republican is one who acts like a democrat. Also, he knows that it won't take many more conservatives in the Senate to get his *** thrown out as majority leader.
Yeah, let's depend on McConnell's opinion for primary candidates. Here is his genius at work during the presidential election -
- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-trump-clearly-needs-to-change-to-win-general-election/Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can't yet bring himself to say that Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, is ready to win the presidency.
"Trump clearly needs to change, in my opinion, to win the general election," McConnell said in an interview with Time Warner Cable News' Geoff Bennett. "What I've said to him both publicly and privately: 'You're a great entertainer. You turn on audiences. You're good before a crowd. You have a lot of Twitter followers."
The senate majority leader continued, "That worked fine for you in the primaries. But now that you are in the general, people are looking for a level of seriousness that is typically conveyed by having a prepared text and Teleprompter and staying on message.'
"So my hope is that he is beginning to pivot and become what I would call a more serious and credible candidate for the highest office in the land," McConnell said.
Yeah, let's listen to McConnell on candidate electability.
Hey Kentucky, quit sending that assclown back to the Senate. BTW, is he a tranny? Looks more like an old lady every year.