When deciding on a replacement for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Republicans should listen to the party’s base and not pick someone who will ignore the will of its voters, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) said on Sunday.
“I think that we have to use this leadership election to turn the page on Republican Senate leadership. You cannot have a Senate Republican leader who is far more obsessed with securing Ukraine’s border than he is focused on the American border. You can’t have a Senate Republican leader who seems to ooze hatred and dismay for the very people who vote most of the Republican elected leaders,” Vance told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“Our base, I happen to think they’re good people and that we should be listening to them more than we do. But you can’t have another establishment politician who seems to dislike the…
