Top-rated conservative pundit Tucker Carlson is calling on Trump supporters to contact their senators and demand that they support Rick Scott (R-FL) for leader after longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) scheduled a leadership vote next week.
McConnell, who announced earlier this year that he will be stepping down from Senate leadership, scheduled a vote for a new leader before Senators elected on Tuesday are sworn in. Despite several flips and other incoming Senators due to retirements, McConnell scheduled the secret ballot vote before the new members could be sworn in.
Multiple Republican Senators, including Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and John Thune (R-SD), the latter of whom is widely viewed as the favorite to replace McConnell, have suggested that the president-elect should “stay out of” the process. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) — who voted in favor of sweeping gun control legislation and suggested that Trump is unelectable earlier this year — is also expected to gather significant support.
Senator Scott is running on executing the Trump agenda at all costs and has received endorsements from several leading conservative voices, though Senate sources have claimed that his candidacy is not expected to last through the first round of voting.
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