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Mitch McConnell

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Mitch McConnell is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, a position he has held since 1985. A member of the Republican Party, McConnell has played a significant role in shaping legislative priorities and has served as the Senate Majority Leader since January 2015. Throughout his tenure, he has been involved in key policy areas including healthcare, tax reform, and judicial appointments. McConnell is known for his strategic leadership and has been a prominent figure in national politics, particularly during contentious legislative battles.

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Feb 8, 2021

Senator McConnell wants everyone to know just how much he wants Donald Trump to be held accountable for what he did.

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Feb 5, 2021

Mitch McConnell and the Republicans were in control. They decided there would be no evidence presented in the Senate trial, there would be no witnesses in the Senate trial and there would be no question of Trump testifying in the Senate…

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Feb 3, 2021

Mitch McConnell said that this was a cancer in the Republican Party. And unless they put a stop to this, they're going to be devoured by it.

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Feb 3, 2021

President Trump is 100 percent within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options. This process will reach its resolution. Our system will resolve any recounts or litigation.

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Feb 3, 2021

Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country, and lawmakers who embrace them are not living in reality.

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Feb 2, 2021

President Trump is 100 percent within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options. This process will reach its resolution. Our system will resolve any recounts or litigation.

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Feb 2, 2021

Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country, and lawmakers who embrace them are not living in reality.

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Feb 2, 2021

Well, look I want to listen to the arguments. The issue upon which we already voted, I think it's an interesting constitutional question. They would listen to the lawyers argue the question.

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Feb 1, 2021

Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country.

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Feb 1, 2021

Mitch McConnell blasted Margie Q's embrace of loony -- loony lies and conspiracy theories as a cancer for the Republican Party.

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Feb 1, 2021

This is a cancer for the Republican Party and our country.

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Feb 1, 2021

Mitch McConnell tonight is calling Rep. Greene loony and full of conspiracy theories and calling her a cancer on the Republican Party.

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Feb 1, 2021

Senator McConnell apparently supports the idea that Republicans need to cut her off, cut off this kind of insanity from the rest of the party.

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Feb 1, 2021

Mitch McConnell was OK with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose help he needed in two Georgia senate runoffs that would decide his control of the chamber.

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Feb 1, 2021

She is still a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them.

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Jan 31, 2021

Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. Somebody who suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged and that the Clintons…

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Jan 28, 2021

Republicans just don`t operate that way anymore.

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Jan 28, 2021

Anyone who fed and incited that mob, as Senator McConnell said, has got to be held to account.

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Jan 27, 2021

If the Democratic majority were to attack the filibuster, they would guarantee themselves immediate chaos. Destroying the filibuster would drain comity and consent from this body to a degree that would be unparalleled in living memory.

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Jan 27, 2021

I intend to participate in that and listen to the evidence.

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Jan 26, 2021

For all the little people that’s we got from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell that he was open to the idea of convicting President Trump for what he describe as President Trump’s culpability and inciting that attack.

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Jan 26, 2021

Today, Mitch McConnell voted with 44 other Republican senators that there should not even be an impeachment trial in this case.

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Jan 26, 2021

Mitch McConnell will say all the nice things he`ll say the Donald Trump provoke things but didn`t incite things. But under no circumstances, is he even remotely interested in trying to hold President Trump accountable that is not in his…

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Jan 26, 2021

It was Mitch McConnell who would not allow an impeachment trial to start until Donald Trump left office.

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Jan 25, 2021

The trial hasn`t started yet. I intend to participate in that and listen to the evidence.

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