Loud jeers broke out during a town hall sponsored by Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was mentioned.
Greene has been more critical of the leadership of Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate as they have worked with Democrats on recent bipartisan bills to finance the government.
She has pushed Republican leaders to exert more vigour in pursuing conservative agenda items like border security and President Joe Biden’s impeachment.
Conservatives who support President Trump have long held Kentucky Republican McConnell in low regard because of his views on issues such as the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, which he has called a “violent insurrection.”
At a town hall in Rome, Georgia on April 8, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson came under fire from Greene for working with Senate leaders. Greene singled out McConnell and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“Do you guys like Mitch McConnell?” Greene posed to her audience. The audience booed in response to her query.
When McConnell declared recently that he is “not leaving the Senate” and that his main goal is to stop the “isolationist movement” inside the Republican Party, it garnered national attention.
In a conversation with Terry Meiners, the host of WHAS radio, McConnell pledged to make the most of his remaining Senate tenure by confronting GOP colleagues who want to limit American backing for overseas allies like Israel and Ukraine.
“I’m not leaving the Senate,” McConnell declared, in spite of his intentions to resign as party leader. “I’m specifically engaged in actually combating the isolationist movement within my own party and so many others as well,” he continued.
McConnell brought up the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which the US has committed tens of billions of dollars to.
Meiners pointed out that Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, has attacked McConnell, claiming he is disconnected from the state’s citizens.
Paul is the first to admit that he believes in isolation. He always has been. For him, this is nothing new. And on this kind of topic, he and I have always disagreed,” McConnell remarked, addressing Paul.