Former President Donald Trump took a swipe at the Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell during his campaign rally on Thursday, saying, “Mitch doesn’t have it anymore.”
“Well, there’s a senator, one of the biggest senators, and one, maybe the most powerful guy, because Mitch doesn’t have it anymore. No, he may be the most powerful guy in the Senate,” Trump said after pointing out Sen. John Barrasso, the third-ranking member of Republican Senate leadership, in the crowd in Henderson, Nevada.
Trump then pivoted to say that former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “going to work on health and women’s health” in his administration if he is reelected.
“One of the greatest, Robert F Kennedy Jr. we have, and he’s going to work on health and women’s health and all of the different reasons, because we’re not really a wealthy or a healthy country,” Trump said.
Some context: Trump and McConnell have had a rocky relationship. In his new biography, McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party.
“I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn’t recognize today,” McConnell told the Associated Press’ Michael Tackett the upcoming biography “The Price of Power,” adding that the former president has “done a lot of damage to our party’s image and our ability to compete.”
