McConnell, who is the Republican leader in the US Senate, has long had a very tense relationship with Donald Trump. He received the grist for the mill when a number of Trump-backed candidates underperformed in this fall’s midterm elections.
– The big losers are the Republicans and not least Donald Trump, who has been very active and has given his support to a number of candidates. Many of them have lost, said Dag Blanck, a professor of North American studies at Uppsala University, against NTB last month.
Mitch McConnell promises the party will do things differently from now on.
– I think the political influence of the ex-president has weakened. This is what has changed, the top Republican begins in a recent interview with NBC News.
McConnell goes on to say that in the future the party will “actively focus on quality candidates” and adds that working conditions will be easier without Trump’s interference.
– The former president may have other tricks up his sleeve, suggests McConnell.
Even before the election, the Republican expressed his concern around the fact that many of the party’s candidates lacked the quality needed to succeed in a by-election.
McConnell points to Trump’s meddling in the midterm elections as a deciding factor in the disappointment of Republicans. The party won a majority in the House of Representativesbut only so far. Democrats also increased their narrow majority in the Senate. On the eve of the election, Republicans had hoped for a so-called “red wave”, but without success.
– We have lost the support of independents and moderate Republicans. We were perceived as a party characterized by chaos, largely due to the former president, says McConnell, who consistently refrained from mentioning Trump by name.
Trump has so far not commented on recent statements from the Republican leadership.
Read the full interview with McConnell her.
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Facts about Donald Trump’s presidency
Donald Trump served as US president for four years until he lost re-election in 2020 and had to leave the White House.
* Trump was elected president in November 2016, with Hillary Clinton as the opposing candidate for the Democrats.
* He won the election with 306 to 232 electoral delegates, but nearly 3 million fewer votes than Clinton.
* Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in January 2017.
* He implemented a string of controversial measures during his presidency, including banning immigration from Muslim countries, building a wall against Mexico, and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization.
* One of his most notable victories was the appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court. He has also nominated a number of other conservative federal judges.
* He also started a trade war with China, introduced comprehensive tax reform with tax cuts for everyone, especially the very wealthy, and relocated the US-Israel embassy to Jerusalem.
* Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that his campaign was helped by Russia to win the 2016 election, but found no evidence that Trump himself was involved.
* Trump was impeached in 2020, accused of trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for corruption. He was acquitted by the Republican majority.
* Trump is accused of sloppy handling of the corona pandemic, which undermined relatively good economic development and led to the United States becoming one of the hardest-hit countries in the world. An estimated 400,000 people died in 2020.
* In November, Trump lost reelection to Biden by 232 to 306 electoral delegates and nearly 7 million fewer votes than the opposing candidate.
* However, he refused to admit defeat, worked hard to get the election overturned, and ended up being impeached again, accused of inciting his followers to storm Congress while he was waiting for bills to be passed. elections.
* Trump was acquitted by 43 Republican senators on February 13. Two years later, Trump is still spreading conspiracy theories that he actually won the election.
(Source: NTB)
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