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2022 Midterm Elections


MCCONNELL ‘BLEW THE MIDTERMS,’ SAYS TRUMP OF GOP ELECTION LOSSES

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Former President Donald Trump on Nov. 13 blamed Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) after Democrats secured control of the Senate after winning
races in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

“It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“Spending money to defeat great Republican candidates instead of backing Blake
Masters and others was a big mistake. Giving 4 Trillion Dollars to the Radical
Left for the Green New Deal, not Infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake.”

“He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife,
Coco Chow!” Trump added, referring to former Transportation Secretary Elaine
Chao.

Trump-endorsed tech entrepreneur Blake Masters lost to incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly
(D-Ariz.) in Arizona’s Senate race by more than 127,000 votes, or about 5.3
percent.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at a press conference at the U.S.
Capitol in Washington, on July 26, 2022. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

The Democrats will have at least 50 seats, after Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
(D-Nev.) won reelection by defeating Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in
Nevada’s Senate race. So far, only one Senate seat has flipped, with Democrat
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeating Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in
Pennsylvania’s Senate race. Fetterman will replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey
(R-Pa.).

The Georgia Senate race remains undecided, with a runoff election scheduled for
December after neither Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) nor Republican Herschel
Walker secured more than 50 percent of the vote.

The GOP is still in the position to retake control of the House. Republicans
have 212 seats and Democrats have 201, according to data from Decision Desk,
which The Epoch Times uses in its Election 2022 map. It requires 218 seats to
take control of the lower chamber of Congress.

In a separate Truth Social post earlier on Sunday, Trump shared an article
titled “After Epic Failure, Growing Chorus Of Senators Signals It’s Time For
McConnell To Go,” which argues that McConnell must be removed from the Senate
Republican leadership.

“Agree with this 100%!” Trump wrote, referring to the article. “Mitch McConnell
is a disaster for the Republican Party and the Country.

“He should have improved Infrastructure to fix it, not the Green New Deal,
wrapped up like Infrastructure. He gave the Democrats 4 Trillion Dollars to
throw out the window, and backed bad candidates like Lisa Murkowski,” Trump
added.

The Federalist article, published on Nov. 11, said McConnell “sabotaged
Republicans in the 2022 midterms” by “pulling spending from competitive GOP
candidates such as Blake Masters” and spending money against Kelly Tshibaka in
Alaska.

Trump-endorsed Tshibaka, a Republican who was a former Alaska Department of
Administration Commissioner, has a 1.38-percent-lead (pdf) over incumbent Sen.
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The winner has not been declared.

Senate Republicans are reportedly scheduled to hold leadership elections on Nov.
16. However, some are calling for the vote to be delayed until after the Senate
runoff election in Georgia is completed.

“Think about it – if we hold leadership elections on Wednesday, there’d be more
campaigning done in a high-school class president election than in the most
deliberative body in the world,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote on Twitter. “It
is absurd. These elections need to be delayed.”

“It makes no sense for Senate to have leadership elections before GA runoff,”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote on Twitter. “We don’t yet know whether we’ll have
a majority & Herschel Walker deserves a say in our leadership.

“Critically, we need to hear a specific plan for the next 2 yrs from any
candidate for leadership,” Cruz wrote.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senator-elect Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) have already
said that Republicans need new Senate leadership. However, Sen. Tom Cotton
(R-Ark.) told CBS News on Sunday that he will back McConnell as Senate GOP
leader.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) speaks during the Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC) being held at The Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida, on
Feb. 26, 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A day before the midterms, Trump endorsed Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as a “likely
candidate” for Senate Republican leader in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Trump praised Scott as a “very talented guy” who is “highly underrated.”

The former president predicted Scott would “have a lot of support.”

Sunday was not the first time Trump commented on the midterm elections. On Nov.
9, he conceded that election results were “somewhat disappointing” but still a
“very big victory.”

“While in certain ways yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, from my
personal standpoint it was a very big victory—219 WINS and 16 Losses in the
General—Who has ever done better than that?” Trump wrote.

According to Ballotpedia, 17 Trump-backed Senate candidates, including Walker,
won in the midterm elections, while 6 lost.

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