Mitch McConnell Does Worry Trump Could Be The GOP’s Next Goldwater

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky holds a news conference on the day after the GOP gained enough seats to control the Senate in next year's Congress and make McConnell majority leader, in Louisvill... Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky holds a news conference on the day after the GOP gained enough seats to control the Senate in next year's Congress and make McConnell majority leader, in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. With sweeping victories that exceeded their own sky-high expectations, Republicans dealt the Democrats and President Barack Obama the most devastating electoral defeat of his presidency, gaining the power to shape the direction of America's government in the next two years. His first meeting with reporters since winning a sixth term in the midterm election, the senator was speaking at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center for political studies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Mitch McConnell believes it is quite possible that Donald Trump’s policy proposals and tone toward Latino voters could endanger the Republican Party for decades with one of the fastest growing groups in America.

In a Thursday interview, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked McConnell if he thought it was possible that Trump would alienate Latino voters the way Barry Goldwater alienated African-Americans from the party for decades.

“I do. I do, and I think that the attacks that he’s routinely engaged in, for example, going after Susana Martinez–the Republican Governor of New Mexico, the chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association, I think that was a big mistake. What he ought to be doing now is trying to unify the party,” McConnell said in the interview.

In his newly released memoir, McConnell writes that that even he voted for Lyndon Johnson during the 1964 election because he was so turned off by Goldwater’s policy on civil rights.

McConnell told CNN that Goldwater’s fervent attacks against the 1964 Civil Rights Act redefined the GOP’s standing with black voters for decades.

“It did define our party, for at least African-American voters, and it still does today,” McConnell told CNN.

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  1. Hey - you already endorsed him so why start beefing about it? Hopefully, it’ll be a cascading defeat for all of you.

  2. Sorry to be the one to inform you there McTurtle…I think most POC have moved on from seeing fervent opposition to the Civil Rights Act. And probably base their feelings on the little more contemporary racism by your Racist party, candidate and his fervent worshippers…probably the KKK endorsements are just a rounding error at this point given how underwater you and your fellow chuckleheads are with anything not lily white.

  3. “I do. I do, and I think that the attacks that he’s routinely engaged in, for example, going after Susana Martinez–the Republican Governor of New Mexico, the chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association, I think that was a big mistake. What he ought to be doing now is trying to unify the party,”

    Yet he has your seal of approval…

  4. More Noseless-dumbass than Nostradamus.

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