Tucker Carlson Issues Urgent Warning On McConnell’s ‘Coup’ Aimed At Derailing Trump Agenda
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.
The arch traitor John Cornyn is being floated as the next Senate Majority Leader.
This absolutely cannot be allowed to happen.
All of the momentum we have gained for gun rights could hit a wall if the man who spearheaded the largest gun control bill in decades is in charge. pic.twitter.com/Rsqyjc6ire
— National Association for Gun Rights (@NatlGunRights) November 8, 2024
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.
On Saturday, Carlson argued that McConnell is in the process of executing a “coup” and became the latest conservative thought leader to endorse Scott’s bid for leader.
“What the hell is going on in the US Senate? Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate,” Carlson wrote in an X post. “Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on. One of them, John Cornyn, is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s. The election is Wednesday, it’s by secret ballot, and it will determine whether or not the new administration succeeds.”
He concluded by urging Trump supporters to contact their representatives in the Senate and demand that they support Scott’s candidacy on Wednesday.
What the hell is going on in the US Senate? Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate. Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on.…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 9, 2024
Carlson joins number one conservative radio host Dan Bongino, as well as Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Bill Haggerty (R-TN), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rand Paul (R-KY) in endorsing Scott.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) — who has largely championed Trump’s agenda since he was first elected in 2018 — is currently facing criticism after reports surfaced that he was planning on supporting Cornyn’s leadership bid.
As the fight for majority leader heats up, critics have accused McConnell of once again mismanaging Senate campaign funds and thus costing Republicans Senate pick-ups in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada, where Republican candidates lost to their Democrat opponents by a razor thin margin. McConnell dumped significant funds into the Maryland Senate race in support of Governor Larry Hogan, a staunchly anti-Trump Republican. Hogan was ultimately crushed in the deep blue state despite his anti-Trump views.
In 2022, McConnell’s Senate Leadership fund cancelled ads in support of Republican candidate Blake Masters in Arizona, and spent minimal amounts on Adam Laxalt’s campaign in Nevada before he was narrowly defeated by incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. He instead spent valuable funds on propping up anti-Trump Republican Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, who has voted with Democrats on several occasions.
Despite the fact that President-elect Trump over-performed Republican candidates and is widely credited with carrying Senator-elect Dave McCormick over the finish line in Pennsylvania, McConnell rejected the notion that Trump is responsible for massive GOP when speaking to reporters on Wednesday.
Senator John Thune has consistently shown that he does not support President Trump’s agenda, and his track record reflects that. The Senate deserves a majority leader who is committed to serving the will of the people, not the Uniparty. I believe that leader is @SenRickScott! pic.twitter.com/dpEYzQSrin
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) November 10, 2024
