Kentucky County Demands Mitch McConnell Resign as Republican Senate Leader

Then President Donald Trump and then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell arrive for the Senate Republican policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 15, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A county Republican Party in Kentucky demanded that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) resign as leader after his comments on the Senate floor over the weekend.

“I do not take this action lightly and understand the ramifications in doing so,” Nelson County GOP Chair Don Thrasher said in a written statement released on Feb. 16, noting that he received Trump’s statement about McConnell’s leadership. “As the highest ranking Republican in that position you are de facto leader of the National Republican Party.”