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The rush to assign responsibility for Trumpcares failure is taking place before it even occurs.
LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
GIDEON RESNICK
SAM STEIN
09.25.17 7:45 PM ET
The Trump White House is gearing up to lay blame for a series of likely failures this week squarely at the feet of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), according to sources in and outside of the administration.
On Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Alabama are poised to reject Trump and McConnells preferred pick for the seat, Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL). The next day, a Republican-authored last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare is almost certain to go down to defeat after , if it comes to a vote at all. On Monday night, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) became the third Republican senator to announce her opposition.
The dual setbacks could have profound ramifications throughout the party, forcing it to reckon with a Republican electorate deeply upset with its inability to move an agenda and its own inability to get that agenda moved. The rush to assign responsibility for that failure is taking place before it even occurs.
One senior Trump administration official told The Daily Beast that the president is well prepared to shovel blame onto McConnell if and when the latest Obamacare repeal effort goes down in flames later this week. Another Trump confidant noted that the president regularly vents about Mitchs seeming inability to get anything over the finish line.
A White House official joked that it has proven a winning formula for Trump to go after the unpopularity of top GOP brass, including McConnell, ever since the campaign. Trump even spent the last few days hammering home the point that Strange (who is locked in an election fight against former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore) isnt even all that close to McConnell politically or personally, and that Strange would be fighting Mitch in the Senate as an authentic conservative.
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underpants
(182,826 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Grab some popcorn and sit back. We are about to see how crazy the country really is.
hlthe2b
(102,290 posts)Not hoping the turtle man stays, but certainly not welcoming his replacement...
kentuck
(111,102 posts)There will be a loud call for him to step down, I would predict. Especially if their healthcare bill doesn't pass, which it does not look like it will.
They will blame McConnell for their over-all failure.
Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)...but he went along with Trump/Pence thinking he would run the country. A new speaker will be worse, though...