Mitch McConnell.Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty
The top Republican in the Senate isn’t concerned about the state of America’s democracy as the 2022 November midterms approach.
“I do think it’s an important issue,” McConnell said ofthreats to free and fair elections, which began after Election Day and culminated on Jan. 6. “There were those who were trying to prevent the orderly transfer of power for the first time in American history and that was not good.”
But the fact that attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election were “thwarted” shows that the country’s political system is strong, McConnell said,according to NBC News.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) and former President Donald Trump in 2017.Drew Angerer/Getty
“Look, I think we have a very solid democracy,” McConnell said. “I don’t think of the things that we need to worry about, I wouldn’t be worried about that one.”
Cost of living (16%), jobs and the economy (14%), immigration (13%) and climate change (9%) all came after threats to democracy (21%) to round out the top five responses.
Trump attacked McConnell — and his wife Elaine Chao, a former Trump administration official — in a post Truth Social over the weekend, calling the senator a “broken down hack politician” after he cited “candidate quality” in suggesting Republicans' chances of taking control of the Senate in the November midterms have diminished.
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“He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected,” Trump said of McConnell on social media, “and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”
source: people.com
