Senate Republicans are doing everything, it seems, except focusing on the Georgia runoff election that is now less than three weeks away.
In the wake of a disappointing midterm election performance, warring factions of Senate Republicans are publicly pointing fingers, trashing each other to the press, and agitating for changes in party leadership.
In the last week, McConnell’s allies have publicly mocked Scott and his team and accused them of grossly mismanaging the NRSC. Team Scott has done the same toward McConnell—and, on Tuesday, Scott himself announced he would challenge McConnell for the party leadership post he has held for 15 years. Liam Donovan, a GOP lobbyist and former NRSC staffer, forecast that the fighting was “bad for morale on the ground, on top of everything else.”There is some poetic significance at work. Two years ago, a GOP civil war over the fallout of the 2020 election consumed the party and contributed to their stunning loss of the Senate majority in Georgia’s runoffs at the hands of Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff .
Sen. Mike Rounds , meanwhile, told The Daily Beast after the vote that “this is as united as this conference has been in a long, long time in terms of people coming together and recognizing and listening to different points of view.”Even if those slings and arrows are put away, the wounds from the McConnell-Scott spat may still be bleeding—and could continue to threaten GOP harmony as they work to elect Walker.
It did not help that Scott’s platform proved unpopular, even within his own party, and that its ideas—like having all programs, including Social Security and Medicare, sunset in five years unless reauthorized—gifted Democrats ready-made talking points for the entire election season. McConnell personally took steps to clearly distance himself from the Scott plan.
In a quote-tweet response, Steven Law, who runs Senate Leadership Fund—the super PAC aligned with McConnell—downplayed the NRSC’s involvement.During a tense all-senators meeting on Tuesday, Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Thom Tillis reportedly called for an audit of the NRSC, stemming from questions about how Scott handled the committee’s finances.
Some tried to cast an optimistic note. Sen. Joni Ernst , who serves as policy chair in Republican leadership, told The Daily Beast she’s confident NRSC and SLF are “going to coalesce and work quite well together.”
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