Bluegrass Times

The Nelson County Republican Party in Kentucky has called on  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to resign as leader following his comments on the Senate floor.

County GOP Chair Don Thrasher in a statement said by being disloyal to Trump, McConnell had turned his back on the people who voted for him.

“I do not take this action lightly and understand the ramifications in doing so,” said Thrasher in a statement, as reported by The Epoch Times. "As the highest-ranking Republican in that position you are de facto leader of the National Republican Party.”

Thrasher went on to state that a huge number of supporters were not in agreement with McConnell and that his "leadership does not represent the Republican voters that put our faith in you in the last primary election.” 

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is pushing for primary challengers for those in office who do not support the vision.

"Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First,” Trump wrote in the statement, The Epoch Times reported.

Trump went on to blame McConnell for the Senate loss, because "he wouldn’t support Trump’s proposal for $2,000 stimulus checks," adding that Democrats used this to their advantage when campaigning. To this, McConnell responded, blaming Trump.

"Georgia was a fiasco,” McConnell wrote, as reported by The Epoch Times. “We all know why that occurred.”

McConnell went on to acquit Trump at the Feb. 13 impeachment trial. However, he stated that the former president could still be up for criminal and civil crimes even after escaping conviction.

“There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone,” he stated. “His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended.

On Jan. 6, it is alleged that then-president Donald Trump encouraged supporters to start violence at the Capitol Hill leading to the invasion. Many have called this an act of domestic terrorism.