RINO Mitch McConnell may be stepping down as Republican Senate leader after the 2024 election.
But McConnell is looking to exact his political pound of flesh on his way out the door.
And Mitch McConnell got called out for this sick betrayal.
McConnell leaves Ted Cruz out to dry
Mitch McConnell controls the biggest Republican Super PAC that gets involved in Senate races.
The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) is the death star of pro-GOP Super PACs that will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in competitive races to push GOP candidates to victory.
But the SLF hasn’t spent a dime on one of the closest races on the map.
The SLF recently released a polling memo showing incumbent Republican Ted Cruz barely leading Democrat challenger Colin Allred by one point.
Cruz is facing a massive cash disadvantage, as thanks to George Soros, Hollywood, Wall Street and Big Labor, Allred outraised Cruz $30 million to $21 million in the fundraising quarter that ended on September 30.
Cruz appeared on Mark Levin’s show to warn listeners that McConnell and the SLF wanted to sabotage his re-election campaign because Cruz is one of the conservative critics who stood up to McConnell every time McConnell negotiated a surrender to Kamala Harris on spending, the Green New Deal, gun control, and illegal warrantless spying.
“Mitch McConnell runs the largest Republican super PAC in the country and has $400 million but that super PAC is used to reward the Republican senators who obey him and to punish those who dare to stand up him,” Cruz said.
Cruz said this is the second straight cycle he’s been the number one financial target for Democrats – beating a conservative Senator from Texas who led the 2013 fight to defund Obamacare would be a prime scalp to hand of the wall for the left – without getting any help from McConnell.
“In 2018 I was in what was at the time the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history. I was being outspent 3-to-1. He had $300 million, he spent zero in Texas. I won anyway but barely, by less than 3 points,” Cruz said, referring to McConnell and the Senate Leadership Fund.
“This time around he has $400 million. I’m being massively outspent again. [Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)] is spending millions. And yet he spent zero,” he added, referring to McConnell.
The GOP establishment hates its base more than Democrats
Cruz said the reason more Republicans in the Senate don’t oppose McConnell’s sellouts is they are afraid of getting hung out to dry in election season.
Democrats hold such a massive fundraising advantage due to their control over corporate America, Hollywood, labor unions, and Wall Street that GOP candidates can’t afford to get cut off from SLF’s financial largesse.
“People wonder at home, ‘How come no Republicans stand up and have courage and stand up to Mitch and leadership?’ And the answer is if you stand up and say ‘no,’ it costs you $10 or $20 or $30 [million], or even $40 million,” Cruz added.
McConnell is more than happy to sacrifice a race and let a Democrat beat a conservative if McConnell thinks it will keep the rest of the caucus in line.
In 2016, McConnell and the SLF left Wisconsin Senator – and McConnell critic – Ron Johnson – for dead in his re-election campaign against Russ Feingold, the Democrat Senator Johnson beat in 2010.
Cruz said Johnson “had a very tough, competitive race” that year and that “Mitch spent zero to support him.”
Johnson won without McConnell’s help and is now an even bigger thorn in McConnell’s side.
The margins in the Senate will be tight.
If Ted Cruz loses, Democrats could keep the majority.
Mitch McConnell and his cronies at the SLF consider that an acceptable price to pay in order to punish conservatives who stand up to the Washington, D.C. Swamp.
