Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) congratulated Roy Moore on Tuesday after the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice won Alabama’s Senate Republican primary, despite Moore’s criticism of McConnell on the campaign trail.
The majority leader said in a statement that Moore “ran a spirited campaign centered around a dissatisfaction with the progress made in Washington.”
“I share that frustration and believe that enacting the agenda the American people voted for last November requires us all to worth together,” McConnell added.
A super PAC affiliated with McConnell, the Senate Leadership Fund, spent millions attacking Moore, according to multiple reports.
During a rally earlier in September, Moore asked the crowd: “Will McConnell’s forces be able to control the senators coming up, with their money, their millions of dollars of money, in the Senate Leadership Fund?”
Moore — who wrote in 2006 of the first Muslim congressman that “Ellison cannot swear an oath on the Quran and an allegiance to our Constitution at the same time” — had the support of former White House officials Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, among others.
After Moore’s victory Tuesday, Trump deleted a series of tweets supportive of Strange.
“Senate Republicans will be as committed to keeping Alabama’s Senate seat in Republican hands with Roy Moore as we were with Luther Strange,” McConnell’s statement concluded. “I urge all of our friends who were active in the primary to redouble their efforts in the general election.”
Taliban jes fine with us so long as they’s Taliban®
Closing the barn door after the horse is loose.
Or, rather, McTurtle’s version of deleting Tweets.
Ol’ Mitchie is in for a wild ride over the next year. Wonder if he’ll be able to stay in the saddle after all.
Takin’ bets.
You didn’t hear Bannon?
That’s mission #1 Get rid of Yertle
Oooh, for once I would like to see Bannon win. I too would love to see Yertle run out of town. Just because.