Donald Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have been at each other’s throats for years.
As bad as it has been, I suspect it is about to get much worse.
McConnell is dropping bombs about Trump’s J6 pardons, and you know that is not going to sit well with Trump.
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If we are being completely honest, there are a lot of mixed feelings on the right about Donald Trump’s January 6 pardons.
I would say that most people are probably okay with the majority of people who were pardoned, but the ones who were proven to have attacked police officers have people divided.
McConnell did not hold back when questioning the pardons, telling CBS’s Lesley Stahl, “I think pardoning people who’ve been convicted is a mistake.”
McConnell also stated, “Yeah, no, it was an insurrection,” when asked if the event was a “day of love” as some of Trump supporters have called it.
It may have started that way in their eyes, but it clearly did not end that way.
Everyone is obviously entitled to their own opinion about that day, but the bigger question here is if it will impact the 2026 and 2028 elections.
There is no way of telling until those elections take place, but I would watch the attacks by Democrats in 2026, as that will be nothing when the White House is at stake.
Remember, JD Vance, who will be the early favorite for the GOP ticket in 2028, stated just days before the pardons that all violent offenders should remain in jail.
After Trump issued the pardons, he changed his tune and said there was a lack of due process in the cases, which is why he now supported Donald Trump’s pardons.
The key point to this is that when he made his original comments, he made it sound as though they had not yet reviewed the cases, and there is simply no way they did that over a 48-hour period.
Clearly, Trump did not communicate his intention to Vance, and he left him hanging on this one.
I don’t think it will hurt Vance in a primary, but we will definitely see a split-screen ad with the two positions in a general election, and it will be a key point of discussion during debates.
