Don’t mention the coup
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Mitch McConnell does indeed represent a Profile in Courage in the JFK sense — Daniel Webster supporting the Compromise of 1850 and Edmund Ross taking a bribe to acquit Andrew Johnson are both good analogies:
An excerpt of the book, provided to CNN, also underscores the difficult political spot in which Trump’s conspiracies left McConnell, who was hoping to shift the focus away from the 2020 election and instead put the weight of the party behind the races for two Senate seats in Georgia, both of which were headed to January 2021 runoffs and would determine the next Senate majority. McConnell maintained a strategic silence over Trump’s lies in an attempt to prevent him from sabotaging the GOP’s chances ahead of the runoffs, the book said.
“We’ve got to stay focused on Georgia,” McConnell said to his colleagues right after they got off the phone with Trump in December 2020.
A McConnell spokesman declined to comment. A Trump spokesman did not dispute the account and said the former President has been consistent in his belief about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, though there’s been no evidence to support that claim.
When Trump gets the nomination again, and needs McConnell’s support or silence in the face of his conspiracy theory du jour, we all know he’s getting it.