A handful of GOP senators is weighing whether to force a fraught internal debate about their leadership’s future after Mitch McConnell’s second public freeze-up in a month.
Some rank-and-file Republicans have discussed the possibility of a broader conversation once senators return to Washington next week, according to a person directly involved in the conversations who confirmed them on condition of anonymity. Party leadership is not currently involved in those discussions, and nothing has been decided yet, this person added.
It takes just five Republican senators to force a special conference meeting, which is the most direct way to have a specific discussion about the minority leader after his public pause on Wednesday revived questions about his condition. But the Senate GOP also holds private lunches two or three times a week, giving members another forum for hashing out the direction of the party’s leadership — one that could forestall the need for a special confab.
I’m a little torn about how I feel about Mitch McConnell lately. if you would have asked me 8 years ago how I felt about Mitch McConnell I couldn’t have cared less if he lived or died. but with the current state of the Republican party he’s one of the last standing members of the Old guard even though he enabled a lot of what’s happened I kind of feel like his recent health issues or direct result of him having internal conflict to some extent with how things have gone in the party and in the country. I won’t shed a tear for him if he does end up passing away or retiring or whatever but I really worry about what replaces him.