Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News the other day that he’s worried the GOP will flip the House but not the Senate due to a lack of “candidate quality.”
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” the minority leader anticipated. “Senate races are just different. They’re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
Social media was quick to blast McConnell for being a ‘Debbie Downer’, but Senator Chuck Grassley seems to think the Senate Minority Leader may have been trying to use reverse psychology on Republican voters in order to rile them up and hit the polls hard this coming November.
Fox News Digital asked Grassley, (R-IA) for his reaction to McConnell’s remarks during an exclusive interview at the Iowa State Fair Friday.
He replied: “We are going to take back the majority because of the fact that the president’s approval rating is under 40 [percent] and all these problems with the economy, people’s pocketbooks are being robbed every day because of Biden inflation.”
“Many people’s pocketbooks are being robbed every day because of Biden’s inflation. And, I think that the motive that McConnell would have would be that he wants to wake people up to the fact that this is an important election coming up and that you better be on your toes, both as a candidate, and people are supporting Republicans, or maybe we wouldn’t want to win control of the United States Senate,” Grassley continued.
“But he needs to have people help by voting, help by getting votes out, and help by contributing to the candidates, and most importantly, the candidates working just as hard as they can. If there’s any of these candidates in Ohio or Pennsylvania or Arizona that are working harder than anybody that’s on their campaign staff, they’re not working hard enough,” the Iowa senator told Fox News Digital.
Grassley also said that inflation is the No. 1 issue for Iowans heading into November’s midterm elections.
“It won’t only be what I hear at the state fair, but what I’ve heard in my county meetings that I hold regularly. Inflation is number one. Some people call it cost of living, saying gas prices. And the fact is, the president is not enforcing law at the border. It just irritates people. You can’t come to America without our permission. And we’ve had 2 million people just willy-nilly cross the border,” Grassley told Fox News Digital.
