Mitt Romney made the comment Sunday after Lindsey Graham said he'd only back McConnell if he mends his relationship with Trump.
"If you want to be a Republican leader in the House or the Senate, you have to have a working relationship with President Donald Trump," Graham toldon Wednesday. Continuing, the South Carolina Republican said,"I'm not going to vote for anybody that can't have a working relationship with President Trump."
McConnell told reporters last Tuesday that he plans seek another term as the Republican leader in the Senate. In February, the prominent GOP lawmaker will turn 80.in Trump's second impeachment trial regarding the U.S. Capitol attack, he condemned the former president for helping to incite the violence. The Kentucky Republican said he didn't support conviction because he believed the trial was unconstitutional due to Trump no longer being in office when it took place.
"Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty," McConnell said in a February 2021 Senate floor speech. "There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President," he said."And their having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated President kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.
Trump quickly shot back with an official statement attacking McConnell."Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again," the former presidentThroughout 2021, Trump repeatedly issued statements and remarks criticizing McConnell. In December, the former president
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