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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: trump is calling MoscowMitch 3 times a day seeking to lock down GOP loyalty
...the President has spent hours tweeting about the impeachment and lighting up the phone lines of his allies on Capitol Hill -- including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to whom he's stressed the importance of Republican unity.
In private, Trump is increasingly leaning on the Republican leader in the Senate. In a return to the President's panicked behavior during the height of the Mueller investigation, Trump is calling McConnell as often as three times a day, according to a person familiar with the conversations.
"This story, based on a single anonymous source, is categorically false. Leader McConnell never said anything like this," Doug Andres, a McConnell spokesman, said.
Trump has been lashing out at GOP senators he sees as disloyal, according to this person, telling McConnell he will amplify attacks on those Republicans who criticize him.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-mitch-mcconnell/index.html
In private, Trump is increasingly leaning on the Republican leader in the Senate. In a return to the President's panicked behavior during the height of the Mueller investigation, Trump is calling McConnell as often as three times a day, according to a person familiar with the conversations.
"This story, based on a single anonymous source, is categorically false. Leader McConnell never said anything like this," Doug Andres, a McConnell spokesman, said.
Trump has been lashing out at GOP senators he sees as disloyal, according to this person, telling McConnell he will amplify attacks on those Republicans who criticize him.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-mitch-mcconnell/index.html
Wow! So trump is scared that the senate might actually vote to remove him. Interesting.
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CNN: trump is calling MoscowMitch 3 times a day seeking to lock down GOP loyalty (Original Post)
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Oct 2019
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uponit7771
(90,367 posts)1. The fact that he needs to call at all is a tell tale sign Moscow Mitch is hanging Red Don out to dry
... and will cut him loose once the impeachment numbers are solid above 55 - ish
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)2. kick & rec.
MF45 will start bribing them next, if he hasn't already. It's the mob way!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)3. Why not try...
Why doesn't he try some quid pro quo? It seems to be a strategy he is familiar and comfortable with?
This is good to hear, though.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)4. Politics is in a "no fault" jurisdiction.
UTUSN
(70,761 posts)5. Do they have a multi-line budget plan?!1