U.S. Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that former President Donald Trump’s political influence «has diminished,» which is why he has promised to find «quality candidates» for Senate elections in 2024.
«This is what I think has changed: I think the political influence of the former president has diminished,» McConnell said in an interview with NBC News.
According to the Republican leader in the Upper House, his party lost support in the midterm elections because they needed to attract independent voters and moderate Republicans.
The «red wave» (in reference to the color of the Republican Party) that for weeks numerous members of the Republicans predicted for the ‘midterm’ in view of the unpopularity of President Joe Biden, was diluted by the vision that many voters had of them as a party, according to McConnell.
«We lost the support we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party, largely from the former president, that we were a little nasty and tended toward chaos,» he told the network.
«And interestingly, while that subset of voters did not approve of President Biden, in a number of cases they didn’t have enough confidence in us to give us the majority we needed,» he said.
Previously, McConnell has pointed out that his party was hampered in those elections by «weak candidates» in several of the states.
«We ended up having a (problem) of candidate quality (…) Look at Arizona, look at New Hampshire and also a challenging situation in Georgia,» the Republican minority leader in the Senate reiterated, mentioning states where Republican candidates were chosen by Trump, according to ‘The Hill’.
«Our ability to control the results of the primaries was quite limited because the support of the former president turned out to be very decisive in these primaries, so, in my view, something better should have been done with the cards that were dealt,» he recounted about the outcome in the Upper House.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
