Quote:Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday on CNN’s “This Morning” that he was meeting with Senat Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the wake of midterm election results to convince Republican senators to ditch so-called “MAGA Republicans.”

Co-host Kaitlan Collins said, “Are you going to talk to Mitch McConnell? What does that look like?”

Schumer said, “I’m going to say to the Republicans in the Senate who are not the MAGA Republicans, stop letting them lead your party. Work with us to get things done. I intend to sit down with Mitch McConnell and express that.”

He continued, “I intend to sit down with him and say we should be working together. You’re not going to get the extremists in your party to work with anybody, but the rest of us can work together and get some real things done for the American people.”

Co-host Don Lemon asked, “I’m wondering what is different? What is going to be different this time with the MAGA Republicans? You said that before. Please work with us. Why is it different this time?”

Schumer said, “It’s different this time because they lost. The red wave proved to be a red mirage. And one, not the main reason but one of the main reasons for sure, was that average American folks, even those in the middle, even those who tended to be Republican, said, ‘I’m afraid of this MAGA. They’re trying to ruin our democracy.’ If you look at the numbers, if you look at the results of the House and Senate, the MAGA Republican way didn’t work. The MAGA Republican candidate, across the board, lost. If you’re a good leader of a Republican Party, you say continuing to follow them is a path to disaster.”

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If MAGA Republicans caused a "win" for the Democrats, why is Schumer so anxious to get rid of them?

Poll: Record Low 7% of Voters View Mitch McConnell Favorably

Quote:Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) favorability has hit a record low, according to Civiqs polling released Monday.

Just 7 percent of voters view McConnell favorably, while 81 percent view him unfavorably. Among the Republican party, only 18 percent of Republicans approve of McConnell. Sixty-one percent disapprove.

Civiqs polling, which dates back to 2018, indicated McConnell has never sunk to a low favorability rating of 7 percent. In February 2021, McConnell’s approval rating was 8 percent, reaching 12 percent in June 2021. Since then, it has gravitated between 8 and 11 percent.

During the last two years of the Trump administration, McConnell enjoyed a much better favorability rating, reaching as high as 31 percent in February and October 2020.

McConnell’s low favorability rating comes as he is seeking reelection Wednesday as the Republican Senate leader after potentially losing one more Senate seat than Republicans controlled before the 2022 election. If Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker loses in the Georgia runoff, Democrats will gain a seat.

Some Republicans have opposed holding the election Wednesday, noting the Georgia election is outstanding. Others remain supportive of McConnell because it appears no senator has directly challenged McConnell for leader.

Under McConnell’s Senate leadership, the national debt has soared more than $20 trillion, illegal immigration has continued, real wages for American workers have remained stagnant, Obamacare was enacted in 2010, big banks were bailed out in 2008, and social media companies have silenced individuals without repercussions. Dr. Anthony Fauci remains unaccountable for allegedly twice lying to Congress.

F Schumer. F Mitch. F Nancy. F all the career politicians on both sides.

And, F all the people for re-electing these crooks over and over again.

Demand term limits. Now!

To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate. Schumer followed Nancy to the hard left---so no reason to listen to him tell the Republicans to join with him on the hard left. A desire to move to the hard left is NOT the message Republican voters were sending.

(11-15-2022 02:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate.

Bad candidates were pushed by Trump. JD Vance is a prime example of that... Dewine gets 62% of the vote in Ohio, Vance got 52%. There is a huge disconnect in the party.

(11-15-2022 02:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate.

He just wants to retire without being delegated to a lower position before his term is up. Notice how quite he has been since the election?

(11-15-2022 02:02 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate.

Bad candidates were pushed by Trump. JD Vance is a prime example of that... Dewine gets 62% of the vote in Ohio, Vance got 52%. There is a huge disconnect in the party.

Maybe. On the other hand, DeWine is an incumbent. While the Senate seat was open, Vance is a relatively unknown 38 year old challenger trying to defeat a well known sitting Congressman who has represented Ohio for nearly two decades. That matters. It looks like Kari Lake will probably be defeated as well---I think she was actually an outstanding candidate---but she was still a virtual political novice against a well known long time Arizona political figure. I think Lake will end up running for a congressional seat and will have a successful career in politics before its all over. In some cases, the candidate may have been the issue---but in the end---the Republican primary voters elected them (not Trump). Overall, when I look all the factors in a given race, candidate quality doesnt seem to be the real problem in most of the losses. Just look at the money spent. Many of the Republicans losing close races lost because their opponents spent double, triple, even ten times as much money. That matters----as does the far more effective democrat ballot harvesting operations.

Dump Trump and this is what you are going to get.

(11-15-2022 02:43 PM)Claw Wrote:  Dump Trump and this is what you are going to get.

Four years as president, and Donald Trump did nothing to rein in what you perceive as bad leadership by Mitch McConnell.

What's Donald going to do now if he is not deservedly dumped? Call Mitch's wife another racist name?

(11-15-2022 02:48 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:43 PM)Claw Wrote:  Dump Trump and this is what you are going to get.

Four years as president, and Donald Trump did nothing to rein in what you perceive as bad leadership by Mitch McConnell.

And, neither has any President, from either party, to any other swamp creature in recent memory.

Hint...the problem in DC wasn't/isn't Trump.

(11-15-2022 02:38 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Maybe. On the other hand, DeWine is an incumbent. While the Senate seat was open, Vance is a relatively unknown 38 year old challenger trying to defeat a well known sitting Congressman who has represented Ohio for nearly two decades. That matters. It looks like Kari Lake will probably be defeated as well---I think she was actually an outstanding candidate---but she was still a virtual political novice against a well known long time Arizona political figure. I think Lake will end up running for a congressional seat and will have a successful career in politics before its all over. In some cases, the candidate may have been the issue---but in the end---the Republican primary voters elected them (not Trump). Overall, when I look all the factors in a given race, candidate quality doesnt seem to be the real problem in most of the losses. Just look at the money spent. Many of the Republicans losing close races lost because their opponents spent double, triple, even ten times as much money. That matters----as does the far more effective democrat ballot harvesting operations.

Vance was taking a Republican seat, one that has been red for a very long time. He was just a very flawed candidate.

(11-15-2022 02:02 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate.

Bad candidates were pushed by Trump. JD Vance is a prime example of that... Dewine gets 62% of the vote in Ohio, Vance got 52%. There is a huge disconnect in the party.

Vance, an outsider from Cali, beat an incumbent Dem congressman who ran a MAGA campaign. Has Ohio ever elected a GOP Gov with 62% of the vote? Dewine won because he was pretty hands off relative to other Covid Nazi governors.

(11-15-2022 02:56 PM)Kyle Mack Wrote:  Vance, an outsider from Cali, beat an incumbent Dem congressman who ran a MAGA campaign. Has Ohio ever elected a GOP Gov with 62% of the vote? Dewine won because he was pretty hands off relative to other Covid Nazi governors.

What? I know more Republican business owners who despise Dewine than I can count. Dewine shut down bars and restaurants for 2 months, then shut down bars at 10PM (as if COVID didn't spread during the day). Dewine was not a hands off governor. Vance was a terrible candidate that was pushed by Trump. Any number of candidates would have been better and have gotten a much larger percentage of the votes.

(11-15-2022 02:54 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:38 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Maybe. On the other hand, DeWine is an incumbent. While the Senate seat was open, Vance is a relatively unknown 38 year old challenger trying to defeat a well known sitting Congressman who has represented Ohio for nearly two decades. That matters. It looks like Kari Lake will probably be defeated as well---I think she was actually an outstanding candidate---but she was still a virtual political novice against a well known long time Arizona political figure. I think Lake will end up running for a congressional seat and will have a successful career in politics before its all over. In some cases, the candidate may have been the issue---but in the end---the Republican primary voters elected them (not Trump). Overall, when I look all the factors in a given race, candidate quality doesnt seem to be the real problem in most of the losses. Just look at the money spent. Many of the Republicans losing close races lost because their opponents spent double, triple, even ten times as much money. That matters----as does the far more effective democrat ballot harvesting operations.

Vance was taking a Republican seat, one that has been red for a very long time. He was just a very flawed candidate.

Ohio has always been bipolar relative to electing Senators. There is no Red Senator seat in Ohio. You have to earn it.

(11-15-2022 02:48 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:43 PM)Claw Wrote:  Dump Trump and this is what you are going to get.

Four years as president, and Donald Trump did nothing to rein in what you perceive as bad leadership by Mitch McConnell.

What's Donald going to do now if he is not deservedly dumped? Call Mitch's wife another racist name?

Maybe you need to go read what this thread is about. This thread is about controlling the MAGA members of the Senate that TRUMP got there. If Trump did nothing, then this thread wouldn't exist. Fact is, he DID do something. Now the DC swamp is trying to close ranks to shut them out.

(11-15-2022 02:58 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:56 PM)Kyle Mack Wrote:  Vance, an outsider from Cali, beat an incumbent Dem congressman who ran a MAGA campaign. Has Ohio ever elected a GOP Gov with 62% of the vote? Dewine won because he was pretty hands off relative to other Covid Nazi governors.

What? I know more Republican business owners who despise Dewine than I can count. Dewine shut down bars and restaurants for 2 months, then shut down bars at 10PM (as if COVID didn't spread during the day). Dewine was not a hands off governor. Vance was a terrible candidate that was pushed by Trump. Any number of candidates would have been better and have gotten a much larger percentage of the votes.

Yet he never came close to approaching what Dem governors did. Dewine didn't need to hold hands with Trump he is a well know commodity in Ohio. Vance is a good candidate. Ryan was forced to run against his own voting record.

(11-15-2022 02:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate. Schumer followed Nancy to the hard left---so no reason to listen to him tell the Republicans to join with him on the hard left. A desire to move to the hard left is NOT the message Republican voters were sending.

Exactly. The Senate is on Mitch.

(11-15-2022 02:38 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:02 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To believe the MAGA Republicans cost the Republican seats would be taking the wrong message from this election. Mitch cost us the Senate---nobody else. The money didnt go where it was needed and it wasnt put where it was needed because Mitch was more worried about have more votes for Senate Leader than he was about having more seats in the Senate.

Bad candidates were pushed by Trump. JD Vance is a prime example of that... Dewine gets 62% of the vote in Ohio, Vance got 52%. There is a huge disconnect in the party.

Maybe. On the other hand, DeWine is an incumbent. While the Senate seat was open, Vance is a relatively unknown 38 year old challenger trying to defeat a well known sitting Congressman who has represented Ohio for nearly two decades. That matters. It looks like Kari Lake will probably be defeated as well---I think she was actually an outstanding candidate---but she was still a virtual political novice against a well known long time Arizona political figure. I think Lake will end up running for a congressional seat and will have a successful career in politics before its all over. In some cases, the candidate may have been the issue---but in the end---the Republican primary voters elected them (not Trump). Overall, when I look all the factors in a given race, candidate quality doesnt seem to be the real problem in most of the losses. Just look at the money spent. Many of the Republicans losing close races lost because their opponents spent double, triple, even ten times as much money. That matters----as does the far more effective democrat ballot harvesting operations.

In Georgia, Herschel is a legend. Gary Black was the Ag commissioner and won bigger than anyone else in the past election, but he didn't have a chance against a legend. Didn't matter if Trump endorsed Gary Black.
Oz isn't particularly MAGA. But he had name recognition to win the primary.

And we knew both of those elections would be hard. Georgia is in a runoff.

(11-15-2022 02:54 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 02:38 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Maybe. On the other hand, DeWine is an incumbent. While the Senate seat was open, Vance is a relatively unknown 38 year old challenger trying to defeat a well known sitting Congressman who has represented Ohio for nearly two decades. That matters. It looks like Kari Lake will probably be defeated as well---I think she was actually an outstanding candidate---but she was still a virtual political novice against a well known long time Arizona political figure. I think Lake will end up running for a congressional seat and will have a successful career in politics before its all over. In some cases, the candidate may have been the issue---but in the end---the Republican primary voters elected them (not Trump). Overall, when I look all the factors in a given race, candidate quality doesnt seem to be the real problem in most of the losses. Just look at the money spent. Many of the Republicans losing close races lost because their opponents spent double, triple, even ten times as much money. That matters----as does the far more effective democrat ballot harvesting operations.

Vance was taking a Republican seat, one that has been red for a very long time. He was just a very flawed candidate.

And Ohio has had a Democratic Senator also for a very long time.

If Mitch has any balls at all he will tell Schumer to get his own gangs radicals in order before telling him what to do. Of course Mitch won't do that.