The morning after Republicans swept key state elections, including an upset victory in the Virginia governor’s race, Senate GOP leaders made the case that Democrats “wildly misread” voters who rejected the party’s shift toward “the radical Left.”
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, called Tuesday night’s results a “repudiation of the nanny state” and pointed to the clash between parents and school officials over school curricula and mask requirements, as well as rising inflation that has stretched incomes thin.
“Because of this growth of inflation, they’re spending more on gasoline and they’re spending more in the winter months to heat their homes, they’re spending more on food, they’re spending more on housing,” Thune said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, accused Democrats of steering the agenda far to the Left of what voters were looking for after the 2020 election, which pushed the GOP into the minority and out of the White House.
“President Biden was only given a 50-50 Senate and a tiny majority in the House,” McConnell said. “But he decided to let the radical Left run the country. Citizens who wanted a return to normalcy have gotten a never-ending series of government-created crises. The American people will not stand for this. That’s what voters told Democrats last night all across the country.”
The election night losses occurred as Democrats struggled to push a massive social welfare spending package into law that would create a new array of government entitlements and subsidies.
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The GOP argued on Wednesday morning the Democrats should heed the message from voters rather than pursue their spending package, which Republicans said would expand the nation’s welfare state, create dependency on government, and hurt the economy.
“I think what the American people are saying is, ‘We don’t want to be more dependent on Washington D.C.,’” Thune said. We want Washington, D.C., to let us live our lives and to focus on the things that are really important to us.”
