A number of Republican senators have called for leadership elections scheduled for Wednesday to be postponed.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters has criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after an expected ‘red wave’ in the midterms failed to materailize.
Masters, who was beaten by Democratic Senator Mark Kelly in Arizona, is one of several Republicans who have now appeared to question McConnell ahead of leadership elections scheduled for Wednesday following the midterm elections.
The race for control of the Senate is much closer than polling had indicated, with Democrats and Republicans currently tied at 49 seats each. If Senator Catherine Cortez Masto can win in her tight race in Nevada, Democrats will have the seats necessary to form a majority with Vice President Kamala Harris’ casting vote.
If Cortez Masto is defeated, control of the Senate will be decided in the Georgia runoff election, where the margins are expected to be extremely close after no candidate won 50 percent support on Tuesday.
« The people who control the purse strings, Senate Leadership Fund, Mitch McConnell – McConnell decided to spend millions of dollars attacking a fellow Republican in Alaska instead of helping me defeat Senator Mark Kelly, » Masters told Fox News on Friday ahead of his defeat.
« Had he chosen to spend money in Arizona, this race would be over and we’d be celebrating a Senate Majority right now, » he said. « And so my message to the people of America, my message to actually my, the Republican senators, hopefully my future colleagues, let’s not vote Mitch McConnell into leadership.
