Speaker 1: So I just spoke about how Mitch McConnell told reporters he. Doesn't like
Republicans chances at winning the Senate in 2022 because Senate races have a lot to do with
candidate quality. Sort of alluding to the fact that he doesn't think a lot of these Republican
candidates are high quality candidates and are a little bit too out there to win these elections.
Let's take a look again at the clip as a reminder. Speaker 4: I think there's probably a greater
likelihood the House, the Senate, Senate races are just different. Their statewide
candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.
Speaker 1: Well, another person, in addition to Sean HANNITY, who is furious with McConnell's
comments, here is Donald Trump, who, of course, has a vested interest in the outcome of the 2022
midterms, because he needs to see this big red wave with as many of his candidates winning as
possible in order to feed into the narrative that you need Trump as the figurehead of the
Republican Party if you want to win back the White House in 2024. So Trump made a statement on truth
social bashing McConnell, which isn't all that new, really. Trump has been treating McConnell
as a pinata for years now, but he even went so far as to bring McConnell's wife into the mix and call
her crazy. Trump said, quote, Why do Republican senators allow a broken down hack politician
Mitch McConnell to openly disparage hardworking Republican candidates for the United States
Senate? This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time and money
helping them get elected and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China. So
I believe that what Donald Trump is doing here is setting the groundwork in place to have something
else to blame the 2022 midterm defeats on in the event that his candidates lose their respective
races. And he really just has so many built in excuses at this point. Like if an anti Trumper
were a half Trump supporting candidate loses their race, well, he can just jump in and say that's
because they were against me. They were not a true pro-Trump candidate, and that's exactly why they
lost. If you have a pro-Trump but doesn't want to talk about him too much type of candidate,
someone like a Dr. Oz, for example, and they lose will Trump could jump in and say, Well,
that's because they weren't embracing me enough, right? I tried to do a rally in their home state
and they turned me down. If they had embraced me more clearly, they would have won. And then
in this sort of situation, if you have someone who is a full on pro-Trump supporting candidate,
where those excuses that I laid out previously wouldn't work, now he can just blame Mitch
McConnell. He can say that, well, Mitch didn't believe in the candidate and the NRC, the National
Republican Senatorial Committee. They didn't spent enough on their race. And that's exactly
why they lost. It has nothing to do with me. And then the all of the above excuse he can always
use is that there was voter fraud. So you always had that one in your back pocket, too. That's a
favorite among Republicans these days. And then the second interesting thing about this post by
Trump is the choice to go after Mitch McConnell's wife, who is Elaine Chao? Chao worked in Trump's
cabinet. She was his transportation secretary, and she actually resigned in protest after the
January six Capitol riots. So apparently that's what got her on Trump's bad side. And that's why
Trump sees her as crazy now. And you got to wonder how Mitch McConnell is going to respond to this,
if he's going to say anything about it at all. Because we know that McConnell has been
very wishy washy about Trump in recent years. He clearly doesn't like Trump. He doesn't like the
power that Trump has over him and the rest of the Republican Party. But at the same time, he knows
that his Kentucky constituents like Trump, and he knows that if he wants to remain in charge of
the Republicans in the Senate, he still has to at least give lip service to Trump being in charge of
everything, and because otherwise they'll decide to oust him as the minority leader. And so he's
in this horrible position of having to maybe defend the person who just insulted his wife.
It's exactly what Ted Cruz had to face a couple of years ago, where Trump called Cruz's wife
ugly. And despite how humiliating it was, Cruz eventually had to come around and defend Trump,
backed him, support him, phone bank for him, and just become a normal Trumpist. So we'll
see if Mitch McConnell decides to go the Ted Cruz route or fill out a little bit more courage and
decide to stand up for his wife. What a incredible situation that Mitch McConnell finds himself in.
And clearly, Trump hasn't learned his lesson that you shouldn't go after people, spouses,
because why would he, Ted Cruz, let him get away with it? So maybe Mitch McConnell will, too. And
will this lead to McConnell being more aggressive against Trump? I'm not going to hold my breath.