WASHINGTON — Key conservatives are panning Mitch McConnell’s decision against offering an alternative agenda to voters if Republicans reclaim control of the U.S. Senate later this year.
While GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has begun putting forward outlines of legislation he’d pursue in a Republican-led U.S. House, McConnell has demurred at that approach, preferring to stick to a playbook of battering weakened Democrats.
“I think this is another example of McConnell being out of step with the Republican Party. He doesn’t want to run on an agenda, because he wants to control things afterwards. Everybody from McCarthy to Donald Trump, every candidate is going to run on an agenda,” said David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, the powerful small government advocacy group.
