73%: Mitch McConnell Should Resign From Leadership Post
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The vast majority of voters want Mitch McConnell to step down from leadership. – 73% of likely voters want Mitch McConnell to step down.
74% of Republicans and 73% of Democrats agree.
The Washington Examiner reported:
About three-quarters of likely voters would like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to resign from his leadership post, his most negative rating since suffering a second mental freeze while speaking to the media.
While a congressional doctor has cleared him to return to work, 73% said it’s time for the Kentucky senator to retire from leadership.
And according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets, the feeling is bipartisan. The survey found that 74% of Republicans want him to leave his leadership post and 73% of Democrats agree.
McConnell has brushed aside calls to step down or retire.
McConnell has had two freezing episodes this year.
His allies scrambled to protect him.
When Mitch McConnell froze up on camera for the second time, he and his allies responded quickly with a simple goal in mind: denying his critics any chance to undercut him.
A handful of hardliners were already watching for cracks in the 81-year-old McConnell’s command over Senate Republicans after he faced his first-ever leadership challenge following last year’s elections — Rick Scott (R-Fla.) ran against him and lost. McConnell’s apparent health problems could embolden insurgents to go after the minority leader again.
“There has been an effort on the part of some to replace him already,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), a vocal McConnell backer. “And I think he wisely recognized that any opportunity would present a window for them to try it again.”
McConnell confronted the moment in the way he knows best: by rallying his supporters to his side. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), one of McConnell’s top deputies, recalled the leader ringing him just minutes after the August freeze to say, dryly as ever, “I just had another one of those.”
