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Above, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Photo source: notreallynews on Instagram)

Axios: New group to focus on attacking McConnell, “the least popular politician in America”

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January 29, 2020

As the Republicans ready their closing arguments in the impeachment inquiry, a new independent expenditure group called Fix Our Senate is gearing up to launch on Tuesday, January 28, to go after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, organizers have exclusively informed Axios.

As a national political figure, McConnell is both extremely powerful and highly unpopular, with a favorability rating of 29.8% in the latest average of polls tracked by Real Clear Politics.

Indeed, Axios reports, according to the new group’s director, Joshua Karp, a Democratic strategist and communications consultant: “McConnell is already the least popular politician in America, Now, we’re going to shine a light on McConnell and every ally who supports him.”

The group plans to conduct and disseminate research on McConnell and his record and leadership strategies to share with activists and surrogates, and shape opinion.

McConnell adviser Josh Holmes told Axios that the group is “welcome to take a number and get in line” in order “to fleece donors into underwriting yet another expedition in search the left’s white Ac\

Finally, according to Axios, polls show that President Donald Trump is more popular than McConnell. The new effort appears aimed less at trying to defeat McConnell in Kentucky—and more at asking U.S. voters to broadly associate Republican candidates and policies with negative feelings about McConnell.

Research contact: @axios@MidnightNMitch

Above, Carl Bernstein. (Photo source: Leading Authorities)

Carl Bernstein calls out Mitch McConnell with scathing new nickname—now trending on Twitter

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January 22, 2020

Move over “Moscow Mitch” and “Grim Reaper.” There’s a new nickname inside the Beltway for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell–conferred by none other than Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein—and it has sent social media users into overdrive, according to The Huffington Post.

The famed reporter called McConnell “Midnight Mitch” during a panel discussion on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° on Monday, January 20, based on the tightly compressed schedule that the Majority Leader had set for the imminent Senate impeachment trial over the Ukraine scandal.

Indeed, the HuffPost reports, McConnell has been so obsessed with keeping the facts of the scandal under wraps that he has insisted on just two days of 12-hour testimony on both sides—starting at 1 p.m. each afternoon, when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is available to preside.

That would run the trial into the early hours of the morning on four consecutive days. Hence, the moniker, “Midnight Mitch.”

Said Bernstein “[This is],,,the most important moment for the Republican Party since the censure of Joe McCarthy and the impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon, in which Republicans became great heroes and patriots. Now, we’re looking at ‘Midnight Mitch’ and the so-called world’s greatest deliberative body really embracing a cover-up that is there for all to see. That’s what this is about. It’s about preventing information from becoming known and seen by the American public.

Bernstein noted how in the impeachments of former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton there had been “no problem about knowing the truth of the facts.”

But in the impeachment trial of Trump, he said, “we still have a factual problem here because the president and those who work for him and Mitch McConnell have impeded the facts from the beginning.”

Harvard Law School professor and legal scholar Laurence Tribe agreed with Bernstein, chiming in on Twitter, “These aren’t rules for a real trial at all, much less a fair one. They’re rules for a rigged outcome, with #MidnightMitch making sure that as much of the so-called trial as possible takes place in the dark of night.”

Research contact: @HuffPost