Mon Nov 14, 2022 – 4:59 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – A growing chorus of Republican senators and conservative voices are calling to delay elections for the party’s next Senate leader, a sign of discontent with current Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in light of the GOP’s failure to retake the chamber in last week’s midterm elections.
Fox News reported that Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio of Florida, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Josh Hawley of Missouri have all called for waiting to vote on the matter until after Georgia’s runoff election takes place December 6.
That race could give Republican Herschel Walker the opportunity to weigh in on the matter if he wins. A Walker victory would preserve the Senate’s current 50-50 split (which favors Democrats as they also hold the White House); a loss would give Democrats a 51-seat majority.
Cruz went much further, declaring that the “rage Americans are feeling across this country, the rage that I’m feeling, there are almost no words to describe it, because this opportunity was screwed up. It was screwed up
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