House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called for an election for his replacement this week. The candidates are Florida Senator Rick Scott, Texas Senator John Cornyn, and South Dakota Senator John Thune.
But here’s where it gets shady. The election will happen Wednesday by secret ballot. Senator Scott has received a flurry of endorsements, perhaps after media personality Tucker Carlson called this a “coup” and encouraged people to call their Senators to “demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott.” He said that the other two candidates “hate Trump and what he ran on.”
Several Senators have pledged to endorse Scott and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed that “without Rick Scott, the entire Trump reform agenda gets wobbly.”
Only Republican Senators can vote for the leader. If no candidate wins a simple majority, the candidate with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated and a runoff between the remaining two will be voted on.
