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Donald Trump finally weighed in on his party’s failure to win control of the Senate on Sunday morning, making it clear that he believes his biggest rival in the chamber is to blame.
“It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault,” the ex-president said bluntly of the Senate minority leader.
It comes after incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto narrowly defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt on Saturday, securing a majority of at least 50 seats for the party with the casting vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Without commenting on that race, however, Trump blamed McConnell for the loss of Republican nominee Blake Masters in Arizona to Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly the day before.
Trump tapped into his Truth Social app, saying, “Spending money to beat major Republican candidates instead of supporting Blake Masters and others was a big mistake.”
“Giving $4 trillion to the radical left for the Green New Deal, not infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake,” Trump said.
“He messed up the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!”
The nickname for McConnell’s wife, former Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chau, was labeled racist when Trump used it in the past.
Donald Trump (pictured after the Election Day vote) left no doubt who he blames for the Democrats’ winning of the Senate in his latest Truth Social post late Sunday morning
Democrats gained control of the Senate for the next two years after taking victory in Nevada on Saturday night
The House of Representatives, expected to turn Republican with dozens of seats, is still in the game Sunday morning
Republicans’ less-than-expected performance in last week’s election has highlighted the party’s rifts. The midterm inquest is filled with finger-pointing as allies of Trump and McConnell each hold the other accountable.
Trump and others have blamed McConnell for pouring millions into the Alaska Senate race to support GOP Senate Lisa Murkowski against a Trump-backed Republican rival at the expense of candidates whose races would have an effect on the Senate party makeup.
Establishment figures, meanwhile, blamed Trump for backing fringe right-wing candidates in the GOP primaries.
“The people pulling the wallet, the Senate leadership fund, Mitch McConnell – McConnell decided to spend millions of dollars to attack a fellow Republican in Alaska instead of helping me beat Senator Mark Kelly,” Masters told Friday night. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
“If he chose to spend money in Arizona, this race would be over, we’d be celebrating a Senate majority now.”
Trump and his allies have refuted some on the right by blaming the ex-president for the Republicans’ mid-term performance by instead directing their anger at Senate Leader Mitch McConnell
Trump and Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters (pictured) both blamed McConnell for his Friday loss on Democratic incumbent Senator Mark Kelly
The former president cracked down on both McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, who was previously the Trump administration’s secretary of transportation
The McConnell-aligned Senate leadership fund pulled back ad spending from the Masters race in August.
Among the other Masters supporters was Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley, who said the GOP as we know it is “dead” Saturday night after the Nevada race was declared.
Cortez Masto defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt, who had the support of both Trump and McConnell, after narrowly overtaking her rival via mail-in ballots from trusty blue Clark County and also Washoe County.
Sources close to Laxalt’s campaign told DailyMail.com on Friday that the GOP’s ex-Nevada attorney general was “bracing for a loss” — a report he and his team furiously denied before the results came to fruition.
Cortez Masto’s victory buries Republican chances to seize power in the Senate over the next two years.
‘The old party is dead. Time to bury it. Build something new,” Hawley wrote on Twitter just before 10 p.m. ET on Saturday.
If the GOP wins the only remaining race, the December second round in Georgia, the composition of the chamber will be exactly the same as it is now: 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris in the deciding vote.
Republicans like Senator Josh Hawley have blamed the GOP leadership for the party’s lackluster performance in the midterm elections
Hawley directly blamed party leaders in an interview with RealClearPolitics, telling the outlet on Friday, “I disagreed that I didn’t have any agenda to go through during these midterm elections.”
Florida Senator Rick Scott, whose sole mission as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee was to get members of his party elected to form a majority, called the showing a “complete disappointment” on Friday.
‘I think we had too few positive messages. We’ve said all about how bad the Biden agenda was. It’s bad, the Democrats are radical, but we need to have a plan of what we stand for,” Scott told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
She and other Republican senators have also made it clear that the knives are out — and reportedly aimed at McConnell.
Hawley (pictured gesturing to Trump supporters outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021) is one of a growing number of Republican lawmakers calling for leadership elections to be postponed
Hawley told RealClearPolitics that he is “not going to support the current leadership in the party” in the upcoming Senate GOP leadership election next week, which he and others have called for postponement.
He and fellow GOP senator Marco Rubio called for the election to be postponed, as did Scott and two other Republicans who outlasted surprisingly fierce electoral challengers — Sens. Ron Johnson and Mike Lee.
“Holding leadership elections without hearing from the candidates how they will perform their leadership duties and before we know whether we will be in the majority or even who all our members are violates the most fundamental principles of a democratic process,” Scott, Johnson , and Lee wrote in a letter, according to Politico.
But Senate GOP leaders are aiming to crush the uprising and continue next week.
In another surprising twist that defies pollsters’ expectations, Democrats also have a non-zero chance of retaining the House of Representatives as of Sunday morning.
Democratic incumbent Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Challenger Adam Laxalt, Multiple Outlets Projected
According to the Associated Press, President Joe Biden’s party currently holds 204 seats in the new Congress, while Republicans hold 211.
Major victories in Washington state on Saturday have boosted Democratic hopes, along with the Nevada victory.
Washington’s conservative 3rd congressional district was won by moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a car shop owner, over Trump-backed retired green beret Joe Kent.
The district was narrowly won by Trump in 2020, and Republican voters there chose to replace their current congressman, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, to boot in the GOP primary after voting to impeach the ex-president in 2021.
Rep. Kim Schrier defeated a Republican primary challenger in Washington’s 8th congressional district to win a third term.
Schrier had turned the chair in 2018, which was under GOP control for more than two decades at the time.