Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Republican voters on April 12 of slipping up chances of retaking the Senate in November midterms, if “unacceptable” candidates win their primaries.
“This atmosphere for Republicans is better than it was in 1994,” McConnell told members of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce at a Tuesday event, referencing the success in the 1994 U.S. midterm elections. It was when Republicans won control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in 40 years.
Yet flawed candidates can still “screw this up,” McConnell said. “It’s actually possible. And we’ve had some experience with that in the past.”
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