Bobby Jindal Calls for Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to Resign Next
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When news of GOP Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)35%
’s resignation filtered into the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal used the occasion to call for GOP Senate Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)52%
to follow the Speaker into retirement.
Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell only came to be the Senate majority leader with the 2014 elections when the GOP gained a sparse majority in the upper chamber, but for Jindal and many conservatives at the Summit, McConnell has already proven he isn’t up for the job.
“Here’s what I say in response to Speaker Boehner stepping down: Mitch McConnell, it is now your turn,” Jindal told receptive attendees at the conservative Values Voter Summit on Friday.
The Louisiana Governor, who is running back of the pack for the GOP nomination for presiden
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