Rick Scott of Florida was ousted from the race for Senate Republican chief on Wednesday, dropping on the primary poll of the race to switch Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Scott garnered simply 13 votes from the 51 Republicans voting within the first spherical.
His poor efficiency got here whilst Scott had the endorsement of MAGA loyalists, together with Elon Musk, the freak right-wing billionaire who’s performing as a kind of shadow president-elect. And let’s not neglect MAGA media personalities like racist 9/11 truther Laura Loomer, Russia apologist Tucker Carlson, bigot and misogynist Charlie Kirk, and plagiarist and Russia’s helpful fool Benny Johnson.
“Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!” Musk wrote in a publish on X, after Scott endorsed Trump’s demand to permit him to make recess appointments for his administration to bypass the Senate’s recommendation and consent position.
“Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump,” Carlson wrote in a publish on X. “Name your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott.”
“A vote for Rick Scott is a vote to END the anti-Trump rot of Mitch McConnell in the US Senate,” Johnson said on X. “Thune and Cornyn are a continuation of McConnell’s total failure.”
These endorsements led Trump supporters to flood the telephone strains of Senate Republicans, demanding that GOP senators vote for Scott within the chief race.
Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, one of many dumbest senators in historical past and a Scott supporter, stated his workplace “telephone has been ringing off the wall” from MAGA devoted who needed Scott as chief.
However Scott, who was cocky within the run-up to the vote declaring that he was going to win, could not translate that right into a victory amongst Senate Republicans.
Republicans as an alternative selected Sen. John Thune, the South Dakota Republican who at present serves as minority whip.
Thune gained on the second poll over Sen. John Cornyn of Texas by a vote of 29 to 24, Punchbowl Information’ John Bresnahan reported.
Of the three males working, Thune has the rockiest relationship with Trump. Thune slammed Trump after the riot on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021—although Thune finally voted in opposition to convicting Trump within the second impeachment trial for inciting rebel.
“What former President Trump did to undermine faith in our election system and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power is inexcusable,” Thune stated on the time.
Trump was so indignant at him for that comment that Trump known as on Thune to face a main, although he simply beat it again. The Wall Avenue Journal, nevertheless, reported in October that Thune has since been working to fix his relationship with Trump.
MAGA world is already threatening Thune to leap when Trump asks.
Kirk wrote on X: “John Thune is Senate Majority Leader. He has a short window to show us he will support President Trump, fill his cabinet, confirm his judges, and pass his agenda. If he does, we will support him. If he doesn’t, we will work to remove him.”
Thune now replaces noxious Kentucky Republican McConnell, who introduced in February he was stepping down from his management position however not the Senate itself.
McConnell is basically liable for obliterating norms in Washington. He helped Republicans steal two Supreme Court docket seats from Democrats in addition to plenty of different federal judgeships he held vacant when Barack Obama was in workplace. He additionally used the filibuster to hinder at a historic degree and squandered the chance to rid the nation of Trump when he refused to convict him within the Jan. 6 impeachment trial, amongst different issues.
