The Main Reason McConnell Should Step Down Are These Polls:

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 28 December 2021 11:45 PM
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A poll published Monday reveals that powerful Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is hemorrhaging GOP support less than a year until the 2022 midterm elections.

McConnell came in dead last in Gallup's new poll ranking 11 federal officials by their job approval ratings. His 34 percent public approval is lower than that of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Though while the three top Democrats in government found majority approval among their own party's voters, the Kentucky Republican is trailing in the GOP sphere.

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Only 46 percent of McConnell's fellow Republicans support his job in the Senate, while a solid 52-point majority doesn't.

The overwhelming dissatisfaction in the Senate's longest-serving GOP leader could leave him in a weak position -- particularly with Donald Trump and his followers hammering away at McConnell's credibility for months.

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In contrast to McConnell's numbers, his House counterpart, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, surveys the highest among any Congressional leader of either party recorded in the survey.

McCarthy's staunch backing for Trump and his positive rating among his own party are strong indicators that the former president is nevertheless very much a kingmaker among the GOP.

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Almost three-quarters of Republican voters surveyed - 71 percent - approve of McCarthy's job in office.

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The California Republican furthermore scored a whopping 12 points higher than McConnell in his overall approval rating with 46 percent.

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McConnell has been a favorite punching bag of Trump's, who most recently named him a "broken old crow'" for voting in favor of Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal and then enabling Democrats to raise the US debt limit.

In an interview with Fox less than 10 days ago, Trump announced: "Mitch McConnell's a disaster. The Republicans have to get a new leader."

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And in September, the Wall Street Journal had announced that Trump was making calls to allies in the Senate and other followers to measure if they too felt it was time for a leadership change.

To date, no Republican senator has gone on the record to resist McConnell. Even Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, who Trump assisted in winning his seat, has announced that McConnell is doing a "good job."

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Although, two Senate GOP hopefuls -- Kelly Tshibaka, who is challenging Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and Eric Greitens, the former governor of Missouri who is running for the seat being vacated by Senator Roy Blunt in the state -- are looking to change that with Trump's endorsement.

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According to the same poll released on Monday, Biden's job approval rating is now lower than that of several of his top deputies, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.

He's ranked toward the bottom of a list of federal officials that furthermore includes GOP Congressional leaders like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

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