
McConnell's mental acuity targeted by Trump after ex-Senate leader joins Dems against Cabinet nominees
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The GOP's recent and longest-serving Senate party leader has stood in opposition to his conference multiple times, demonstrating the party’s significant transformation in the age of Trump.
"He's a, you know, very bitter guy," Trump added of McConnell, with whom he has had a strained relationship with over the years, including during his previous presidency. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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While such a shift from GOP leader to defiant Republican might be optically jarring, the move was unsurprising to Jim Manley, former senior communications advisor and spokesman for former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic Caucus.