“Former President Donald Trump’s popularity among Republicans is 43 points greater than Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) popularity, a recent Morning Consult poll found.

Republicans’ preference for Trump over McConnell underscores the success of Trump’s America First movement, which McConnell largely opposes:

Trump’s favorability: 76 percent
McConnell’s favorability: 33 percent
Trump’s unfavorability: 17 percent
McConnell’s unfavorability: 44 percent

The poll sampled 753 Republican voters from March 30-31 as has a four-point margin of error.

This week, McConnell said he intends to remain in the U.S. Senate to oppose his party’s position not to fund the Ukraine-Russia war.

“I’m not leaving the Senate,” McConnell said. “I’m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party. …And the symbol of that lately is, ‘Are we gonna help Ukraine or not?’”

McConnell announced in February he would step down as Senate minority leader at the end of the cycle following health issues and incidents of freezing up during press conferences.” (Courtesy Breitbart.com)

The gaping chasm between the popularity of the former President and the popularity of the former Senate Majority Leader comes as no surprise.

The Republican Establishment have grown arrogant and aloof, distancing themselves from the people who gave them their cushy jobs on Capitol Hill.

History shows the former President Trump came along and galvanized the average Americans in “Flyover Country” into a Conservative Juggernaut and a political force to be reckoned with.

And, he is poised to do it again.

McConnell has a problem: The fact is that the Republicans do not have any chance of success in the 2024 Presidential Election without the Charismatic Former President.

He knows that.

His obvious age-related illnesses have given him the perfect excuse to step down from his leadership role, in which his hatred for Trump would be very obvious to all Americans, and still remain a force behind the scenes in the Senate.

Here’s a well-known “secret”: The same average Americans who comprise the Republican Voting Base do not trust the Capitol Hill Establishment Republicans any further than they can throw them.

Americans have watched the Republicans sell them out to the Democrats for years until Trump came along.

Trump connected with average Americans in a way no other Republican has since Ronaldus Magnus (Ronald Reagan).

He lifted the Republican Party up from the mire of the D.C. Swamp and showed them how to actually stand up to the Democrat Elite.

The only problem with the alliance between Trump and the Republican Establishment is the greed and the habit of pushing for political expediency, which the Republicans on Capitol Hill have embraced for years.

It’s going to be up to Trump to keep them “honest”.

And, a MAGA Republican victory in November will certainly help get things moving in the right direction.

Until He Comes,

KJ