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'Salt in Mitch McConnell’s wound': Corker announcement caps off rough day for GOP leadership
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'Salt in Mitch McConnell’s wound': Corker announcement caps off rough day for GOP leadership

It had already been a bad day for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) when centrist Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) announced he would not be seeking re-election in the 2018 midterms.


The GOP's latest last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act had once again failed, Republican establishment candidate Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) seemed poised to lose his primary, and to top it all off, Kentucky's Louisville University announced they were under investigation by the FBI.

Now, with the announcement that a high-ranking centrist Republicans was not seeking re-election, McConnell's day went from bad to worse.

As "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd noted after Corker announced his retirement, the timing seemed especially bad.

"If you were looking for a time to rub salt in Mitch McConnell's wound," Todd said, "it would be today."

Watch the off-handed remark about McConnell's no good very bad day below, via MSNBC.

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