Posted at 7:30 am on December 21, 2019 by Elizabeth Vaughn
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, right, arrive to speak to reporters following a closed-door strategy session that included Vice President Mike Pence, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Not even Never-Trumper Chris Wallace thinks that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will cave in to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demands. On Friday, the “Fox News Sunday” host said, “People have lost a lot thinking Mitch McConnell was gonna bend to anybody’s will, but that seems to be Nancy Pelosi’s gambit at this point.”
I posted about the extraordinarily effective speech McConnell delivered on Thursday morning in response to the previous night’s vote to impeach the President here. Later that day, he met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who had referred to McConnell’s earlier address as a “30-minute partisan stem-winder,” Afterward, McConnell returned to the Senate floor to report that the two had failed to reach an agreement.
McConnell appeared to be confident, in-charge, and slightly amused (even just a little bit smug) by the Democrats’ attempt to dictate the terms of the Senate trial.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
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