Officials for both the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee said the session is the type of typical meeting that takes place in the middle of a presidential campaign with three months to go until the November 8 election. I’m the one raising the money for them.
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Twenty-four GOP-held seats are on the ballot this year, compared with 10 for Democrats, he noted.
Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate Mitch McConnell listens to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, January 24, 2012.
For almost 30 years, Senator Mitch McConnell has been the face of Kentucky politics both here and in Washington D.C. – most recently as Senate Majority Leader.
“I understand that this is a process, and I understand that we might not win this war, but we have to keep trying”, Thompson said.
With the election less than three months away, McConnell said Republicans are in “a dogfight”, and listed GOP-held seats in New Hampshire, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida and in as “very competitive”.
“I think we’re gonna have tremendous voter turnout”, he insisted.
He said Clinton’s email scandal wouldn’t top his list of issues, but pointed to issues with the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State as “a major sort of ethical blind spot. But that doesn’t mean I don’t support him”.
A draft of the letter, obtained by various US news organizations, warns that the Republican presidential candidate’s “divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”.
“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”, said a draft of the letter obtained by the BBC.
The letter, which is in draft form and expected to be sent next week, urges Priebus to focus RNC resources on saving the Republican majority in the House and Senate – effectively casting Trump’s campaign as a lost cause dragging congressional candidates down.
Fifty former security and diplomatic officials from Republican administrations signed a letter earlier this week opposing Trump, while other prominent Republicans have either come out against him or gone a step further and endorsed Hillary Clinton.
“He just put out a press release”, Trump said of Priebus.
It said Trump’s chances of becoming president are “evaporating by the day”, due in large part to feuds and inflammatory comments that are alienating voters.
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McConnell did not explicitly blame the GOP presidential nominee for harming the party’s Senate candidates, but he did criticize Trump’s campaign tactics and said he hopes he “settles down and follows the script”.
