Trump also reprised a racist nickname he used previously to refer to McConnell’s wife.
Former President Donald Trump assailed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell following Republicans’ failure to win control of the Senate, accusing McConnell in a series of Truth Social posts of investing in the wrong midterm races and failing to back unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, in the latest conflict between the Senate GOP leader and the former president.underperformance in the 2022 midterm election.
Trump blamed Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters’ high-profile loss in Arizona on the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund’s decision to divert ad spending away from the race and spend “vast amounts of money” to back Sen. Lisa Murkowski , who is trying to fend off a challenge from Trump-endorsed Republican Kelly Tshibaka.
Calling McConnell “the Republicans Broken Down Senate Leader,” Trump also claimed he failed to stop election workers in Clark County, Nevada from attempting to “steal” the Senate election from Republican Adam Laxalt, claiming “they’re finding all sorts of ballots”—there is no evidence of vote-rigging in Nevada, or anywhere else, during this year’s midterms.
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