McConnell urges GOP to resist weakening leader post
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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| 0:55.0 | Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Wednesday, June 19th, 24. In honor of June 10th, we only have one edition of the AM newsletter today. With that, let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Mitch McConnell makes his pitch for the next Senate leader to retain their power. |
| 1:00.8 | Number two, the tally. Max Cohn is on the ground for us in New York State. And number three, |
| 1:05.6 | the latest from Tuesday's primaries. All right, let's get into it. It is a busy AM newsletter. We've got some |
| 1:13.8 | news here to kick off the morning reported by our very own Andrew Desiderio, who is the best |
| 1:22.8 | of the best when it comes to covering the Senate. He is reporting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has |
| 1:28.7 | been largely silent in public about the ongoing race to succeed him as the top Republican. |
| 1:35.3 | But during Tuesday's closed-door GOP lunch, McConnell gave an impassioned plea for preserving |
| 1:41.2 | key elements of the leadership structure that are facing scrutiny from his |
| 1:45.5 | potential successors. |
| 1:47.8 | McConnell's remarks were counted by several senators who were in the room, show how the |
| 1:51.3 | longtime leader is working to prevent drastic changes to how the GOP conference operates. |
| 1:57.1 | Some are embraced by a wide array of Republican senators. |
| 2:01.1 | Of course, as we have discussed many times on this podcast, McConnell is the longest |
| 2:06.1 | serving leader in the Senate. |
| 2:08.9 | And there has been consternation of late, particularly in the past couple of years, |
| 2:12.8 | about how he has wielded that power from certain senators, including Senator Rick Scott, the Republican |
| 2:19.6 | from Florida, who is running to succeed McConnell. |
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