Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has taken a rare swipe at the Party to which he owes his entire political career by saying that the Republican National Committee went too far in censuring Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, the New York Times reports.
“We saw it happen,” McConnell said. “It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. That’s what it was.”
McConnell joins a growing number of Republicans who seem increasing uneasy about the growing violence and anti-American sentiment within the GOP, particularly when it comes to supporting the terrorists who attempted to overthrow the Constitution. And McConnell stated the unity of the Republican Party was a risk because of continued infighting.
“Traditionally, the view of the national party committees is that we support all members of our party, regardless of their positions on some issues,” McConnell said after Senate Republicans’ closed-door weekly lunch, adding, “The issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views of the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC.”