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   From: fuck-obama-too@nytimes.com   
      
   Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is turning his focus to   
   retaking the majority in 2022, saying he would back Republican   
   primary candidates based on their electability, even if it meant   
   opposing rivals backed by former President Donald Trump, he   
   revealed in a new interview.   
      
   “My goal is, in every way possible, to have nominees   
   representing the Republican Party who can win in November. Some   
   of them may be people the former president likes. Some of them   
   may not be. The only thing I care about is electability,” the   
   highest-ranking Republican official told Politico in a telephone   
   interview over the weekend.   
      
   The Kentucky senator went on to warn, however, that this did not   
   mean he planned to automatically oppose any Trump-endorsed   
   candidates.   
      
   “I’m not predicting the president would support people who   
   couldn’t win. But I do think electability — not who supports who   
   — is the critical point,” he argued.   
      
   The Senate is split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats,   
   though Vice President Kamala Harris has a tie-breaking vote,   
   giving the left a single-vote advantage.   
      
   Despite being in the minority now, McConnell expressed   
   confidence about the upcoming race.   
      
   “The difference between now and 2009 is the difference between   
   40 and 50. I was there in 2009. I know what it looks like after   
   you got clobbered. We didn’t get clobbered. We lost the White   
   House.”   
      
   Asked if he would stand in opposition if Trump sought the White   
   House again in 2024, McConnell declined to answer, saying   
   simply, “I’m focused on ’22.”   
      
   The Kentucky Republican voted to acquit the former president in   
   last week’s Senate impeachment trial.   
      
   Still, he argued that Trump bore the moral responsibility for   
   the Capitol siege last month that got him impeached in the House.   
      
   “President Trump is constitutionally not eligible for   
   conviction” as a result of already having left office, but   
   “there is no question — none — that President Trump is   
   practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of   
   that day,” he said on the Senate floor.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/mcconnell-sets-sights-on-retaking-   
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