“We live in a time period where people want someone more outspoken, someone more persuasive, and so a lot of folks in the base look at him and say, ‘Hey, he just looks like he’s not enthusiastic about this,'” Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican who won his reelection bid last week, said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”
“McConnell has the difficult position of trying to be able to pull together a group of eagles that is the American Republican senators and to try to get that group to be able to fly together.”
That’s difficult, said Lankford, as “we’re all very independent.”
“We all represent our own states, and it’s very difficult to be able to pull that kind of group together,” he said. “We don’t all think alike. I don’t always vote like Mitch McConnell, but we also have a very open door to be able to have very hard conversations behind the scenes.”
[Maybe that argument sealed the deal for McConnell. — Ed]
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