McConnell Tries To Move Past 2020 & Trump, But GOP Senate Candidates Are Doing The Opposite

In an escalation of the all-consuming feud that’s dividing the Republican Party, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a “jab” at former President Donald Trump today,“signal[ing] it’s time to move past Trump ‘rehash’ of 2020 election.”

But GOP Senate candidates across the battleground states are doing the opposite — spending their time embracing debunked election conspiracy theories and attacking their primary rivals to try to earn Trump’s support.

From David Bergstein, DSCC Communications Director: “In virtually every race GOP Senate candidates are spending their time sucking up to Trump, viciously attacking their Republican primary opponents or just talking about whatever they think Trump cares about, like the 2020 election. In doing so they are demonstrating how out of touch they are with the concerns of voters who will decide the general election in their states.”

See for yourself:

• In Arizona, every single GOP candidate has “embraced some level of rhetoric” about Trump’s conspiracies in a race for an elusive Trump endorsement even after the former president lost the state in 2020.

• In Nevada, failed candidate Adam Laxalt loudly embraced false and debunked claims of election fraud after the November 2020 election and has already made a Trumpian threat to file litigation to potentially overturn the 2022 election results.

• In North Carolina, the crowded Republican field is trying to “out-Trump each other” in an attempt to “undermine their opponents and win over Donald Trump’s loyal base.” Despite Trump’s endorsement of Ted Budd, McCrory and Walker haven’t backed off any attacks and are openly targeting Budd.

• In Pennsylvania, Trump’s toxic election conspiracies are running rampant as every single GOP candidate has backed baseless calls for an election audit in an attempt to use “their loyalty to the lie as a selling point” for their campaigns.

• In Ohio, the entire GOP field is desperately positioning themselves “frantically in hopes of being deemed the Trumpiest of them all,” in a sad attempt to stand out in this crowded primary –– the Wall Street Journal recently wrote that this primary demonstrated “how tight…Trump’s grip on the GOP” is.

See more: NBC News: Trump’s stolen election lie is on the ballot in 2022, thanks to these candidates; Roll Call: GOP Senate candidates backed legal challenges to the 2020 election; HuffPost: Republicans Don’t Want To Talk About Trump Unless They’re On The Campaign Trail. 

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