McConnell Crows That ACB Will Be A ‘Political Asset’ For GOP Candidates

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gives a thumbs up sign after speaking on the floor of the Senate on March 25, 2020. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took a victory lap on Monday night after Republican senators successfully confirmed President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court justice nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

During an interview with Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, McConnell brushed off the notion that Barrett’s rushed confirmation would potentially come back to bite Republicans on Election Day.

“If you recall, we had a Supreme Court fight a month before the election in 2018, and we actually gained seats,” the GOP leader told Bream.

“I think this nominee will be a political asset for our candidates around the country,” he continued. “Not a liability, but an asset.”

Barrett’s addition to the Supreme Court further cemented the court’s conservative majority and reinforced fears among liberals that Trump will weaponize SCOTUS to sway the elections in his favor should he contest his potential defeat in the courts.

Watch McConnell below:

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  1. If Trump loses and throws the election into ‘doubt’, just how many GOP Senators/Reps will jump on the bandwagon and contest their defeat and refuse to concede?

    I see a major sh*t-show brewing.

  2. Fuck you McConnell …That is all

  3. Avatar for jm_tpm jm_tpm says:

    Not going to happen. It has been repeatedly demonstrated during the MAGA era that ‘Only Trump can be Trump’! Everyone who has tried to imitate him on the GOP side has been incinerated. The GOP senators/reps who lose will slink away quietly to insure their lobbying or right wing think tank positions.

  4. Between this and the demographic cliff that the GOP is standing on the edge of, I think this means that there really isn’t a reason to vote for them anymore. They have their court, they are going to overturn Roe v. Wade and any vestiges of the ACA, what’s going to rally the troops? What troops will remain in 4-8 years?

  5. Avatar for jm_tpm jm_tpm says:

    Fox News.

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