Former Republican strategist Tara Setmayer was stunned by new reporting that former President Donald Trump's allies are pushing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for an endorsement of the former president, and that Trump expects McConnell will cave soon.
This is in spite of the fact that the two of them have had an icy relationship since the Jan. 6 attack, with McConnell publicly condemning Trump's actions, and the former president repeatedly attacking McConnell and suggesting he would be forced out under Trump's second presidency.
"I have to go back to the Mitch McConnell thing for a second," Setmayer told MSNBC host Michael Steele, himself a former Republican Party chair. "The fact ... that Mitch McConnell would even be considering endorsing Donald Trump after everything that Trump has done to him as well, I mean, calling his wife all kinds of ethnic slurs, calling him a piece of crap, according to Maggie Haberman's book, making fun of him and his age. saying all of these disparaging things about him."
Beyond that, Setmayer added, "Mitch McConnell can't stand Donald Trump. He knows that he is someone who isn't a serious person. But he's willing to do this, which is like if McConnell comes out and endorses Trump, what that does is once again, it opens up the others in the Senate and other donors to say that Donald Trump is someone we can still support, despite everything he's done."
"I mean, the day McConnell endorses Trump, you might as well write the obituary for the Republican Party because it's dead and buried from any image and likeness in which you and I, the party we joined, or the party Reagan was the leader, or the party that Bill Buckley said we're supposed to be as conservatives, that party is dead and gone," continued Setmayer. "Because my god, could you be any more of a coward, Mitch McConnell? You're in a position to actually say no, we cannot allow someone like this to be the President of the United States again. Cut because of political expediency, he's willing to do it."
"It's really quite pathetic," she added.
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