Longtime political observer Paul Waldman wrote a column for the Washington Post on Friday over the fall of the U.S. economy and how Mitch McConnell has given up on the reelection chances of Donald Trump.
According to Waldman, “He [McConnell] has already given up on the idea of Trump being reelected, and he’s planning for the future.” He goes on to say that the Kentucky Republican would rather the economy continue to flounder about under the current president and let former Vice President Joe Biden inherit a mess — then blame him if he doesn’t clean it up quickly.
As Waldman wrote, “McConnell knows what’s happening. He has surely looked around and realized that with the pandemic surging, there is simply no way the economy is going to come roaring back before November,” adding that McConnell, “…understands that the odds his party will retain control of the Senate are probably 50-50 at best.”
“From where he [McConnell] sits, the best outcome now may be to use the next stimulus package to win some minor ideological victories, but not allow it to be substantial enough to set the stage for a genuine recovery,” he wrote before suggesting, “… if and when Biden becomes president in 2021, the situation will be no less dire than it is now — and maybe more so. And the worse things are in the country at that point, the better it is for Republicans. Just as they did when Barack Obama was president, they can blame Democrats for their own mistakes, then force austerity measures that sabotage the economy and slow the recovery.”
You can read the full column HERE.
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