It was clear that the Republicans wouldn’t be able to retake the Senate on Saturday night, but Missouri Senator Josh Hawley urged his fellow Republicans to keep fighting for reform.
Maybe there was a party before, but it’s finished now. Now we can finally put an end to this. Republican Adam Laxalt said as much after losing to Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada’s senate election.
As Republican hopes of retaking the Senate with the flip of a single seat were dashed, Hawley vowed to “bury” the party and “build” a new one. The Republican Party in Georgia may lose at least one senator in a runoff election scheduled for December.
By not endorsing Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for Senate GOP leadership the day before the midterms, Hawley sent a signal of support for reform inside the party.
The Missouri senator apparently said, “I don’t anticipate I would, no,” when asked if he would vote for McConnell. I have no idea whether any other potential Senate candidates will enter the race. There is no evidence that anyone tried to accomplish this. The organization, in my opinion, is in need of fresh management.
The Senate Leadership Fund, which McConnell controls, is under fire from Republicans for abandoning its support for Republican Blake Masters in Arizona’s close Senate race in favor of Kelly Tshibaka, who is battling McConnell’s friend Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (R-AK).
Then, when the runoff results in Georgia’s senate race were released, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill joined Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and others in trying to postpone a vote on Republican leadership.
Truly, I can’t think of anything that would be better. According to Josh Hawley, in response to Marco Rubio’s request to delay the Senate Republican leadership vote, “I don’t know why Senate GOP would have a leadership vote for the next Congress before this election is over.” A runoff election for #GASenate is scheduled for this week, but it seems like nobody cares. The account of @HerschelWalker needs to be suspended immediately, and all of his voting privileges stripped.
Hawley is an outlier within the Republican Party because he is one of the few elected Republicans to go against the party’s ideology, which has typically prioritized corporate interests and international interventionism over policies that aid working and middle-class people.
The United States’ exit from the World Trade Organization, the regulation and dissolution of Big Tech pay subsidies for low-paid workers employed by modest firms, and tax credits for working-class families are among Hawley’s most severe policy suggestions.