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Senate Republicans are reckoning with an insurgent s win in Alabama that poses clear threats to their own grip on power and the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.Nearly $10 million spent by a McConnell-backed super PAC couldn t save incumbent GOP Sen. Luther Strange, who had been endorsed by President Donald Trump as well. It came the same day that McConnell, short of votes, pulled the plu stanley drinking cup g on the latest a stanley cup nd possibly final GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Coming together, the events raised questions Wednesday about McConnell s leadership within the Senate and without, casting doubt on his reputation both as a seasoned political operator and a nearly unbeatable vote-counter on Capitol Hill. I d hate to think about where we would be without Sen. McConnell s efforts. But I think we ll learn from it, and we ll adjust, McConnell s No. 2, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, said of the victory of rabble-rousing former jurist Roy Moore, known for hanging the Ten Commandments in his courtroom in defiance of federal court orders. We re all listening and watching very closely and trying to understand the message that s being sent. To some conservative campaign operatives, there was little question about that message. Alabama was a rej stanley uk ection of Mitch McConnell and the entire Republican establishment that he represents, said Andy Surabian, senior adviser to the pro-Trump group Great America Alliance, which spent more than Romo Seeking control, campaigns turn to local press
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that President Obama is dangerous to America because his administration has lost the trust of other nations around the world, citing as proof that the United States still does not know who was hiding Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and a recent stanley quencher Saudi pact with China. Full CBSNews coverage: Election 2012 This is an administration that no country really trusts, it s the reason the Saudis are now signing a nuclear treaty with the Chinese, not with the Americans, Gingrich said in an interview with CBS This Morning, adding that is dangerous to America. Charlie Rose as stanley cup ked Gingrich about the Obama administration s claims that it stanley cups uk not only killed bin Laden, it has killed more al Qaeda people than any prior administration and its anti-al Qaeda campaign has been very effective. My answer to that is that it has been so effective they barely got a guy on Saturday who was trying to blow up the U.S. Capitol. It has been so effective that we have no idea in Pakistan who was hiding bin Laden. And in fact the Pakistanis have now arrested a Pakistani for having helped the Americans, not for having hidden bin Laden, for having helped the Americans, Gingrich said. It has been so effective that the Muslim brotherhood is now the dominant party in Egypt and is openly talking about getting an Egyptian nuclear weapon and breaking the treaty with Israel. I don t think that s very effective. I think that i
Senate Republicans are reckoning with an insurgent s win in Alabama that poses clear threats to their own grip on power and the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.Nearly $10 million spent by a McConnell-backed super PAC couldn t save incumbent GOP Sen. Luther Strange, who had been endorsed by President Donald Trump as well. It came the same day that McConnell, short of votes, pulled the plu stanley drinking cup g on the latest a stanley cup nd possibly final GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Coming together, the events raised questions Wednesday about McConnell s leadership within the Senate and without, casting doubt on his reputation both as a seasoned political operator and a nearly unbeatable vote-counter on Capitol Hill. I d hate to think about where we would be without Sen. McConnell s efforts. But I think we ll learn from it, and we ll adjust, McConnell s No. 2, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, said of the victory of rabble-rousing former jurist Roy Moore, known for hanging the Ten Commandments in his courtroom in defiance of federal court orders. We re all listening and watching very closely and trying to understand the message that s being sent. To some conservative campaign operatives, there was little question about that message. Alabama was a rej stanley uk ection of Mitch McConnell and the entire Republican establishment that he represents, said Andy Surabian, senior adviser to the pro-Trump group Great America Alliance, which spent more than Romo Seeking control, campaigns turn to local press
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that President Obama is dangerous to America because his administration has lost the trust of other nations around the world, citing as proof that the United States still does not know who was hiding Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and a recent stanley quencher Saudi pact with China. Full CBSNews coverage: Election 2012 This is an administration that no country really trusts, it s the reason the Saudis are now signing a nuclear treaty with the Chinese, not with the Americans, Gingrich said in an interview with CBS This Morning, adding that is dangerous to America. Charlie Rose as stanley cup ked Gingrich about the Obama administration s claims that it stanley cups uk not only killed bin Laden, it has killed more al Qaeda people than any prior administration and its anti-al Qaeda campaign has been very effective. My answer to that is that it has been so effective they barely got a guy on Saturday who was trying to blow up the U.S. Capitol. It has been so effective that we have no idea in Pakistan who was hiding bin Laden. And in fact the Pakistanis have now arrested a Pakistani for having helped the Americans, not for having hidden bin Laden, for having helped the Americans, Gingrich said. It has been so effective that the Muslim brotherhood is now the dominant party in Egypt and is openly talking about getting an Egyptian nuclear weapon and breaking the treaty with Israel. I don t think that s very effective. I think that i