<p>If you were hoping for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans</a> in the Senate to focus on stopping the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invasion at the southern border</a> or spending its time exposing deep-state corruption, it would appear that you are out of luck.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mitch+cmmconnel+dialywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=mitch+cmmconnel+dialywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j46i13i131i433i512j0i13i512j69i64l3j69i60l2.2850j0j9&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell</a> (R-KY) claimed that the GOP&#8217;s top objective is to provide Ukraine with more assistance — on top of the tens of billions the U.S. has already sent.</p>
<p>&#8220;Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians — that&#8217;s the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans. That&#8217;s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">McConnell: &quot;Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That&#39;s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/NPmzWRzoz1">pic.twitter.com/NPmzWRzoz1</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1605301253952589824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Many in The Daily Wire audience may be reading this article in between calculating Christmas soaring expenses due to inflation or making sure that their kids&#8217; holiday pageant isn&#8217;t filled with drag queens and other perversities. For those concerned parents, McConnell&#8217;s comment may have come as a surprise.</p>
<p>To that extent, his remarks make a lot more sense when you consider he is likely only talking about Republicans in Washington, D.C., and not anywhere else.</p>
<p>In fact, since May, McConnell has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-claims-we-all-agree-the-most-important-thing-going-on-in-the-world-right-now-is-the-war-in-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated that his Republican Party</a> — he is the Senate leader of it after all — is focused squarely on the people of Ukraine.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine,” McConnell told reporters in early May.</p>
<p>He even boasted about his efficiency working with President Joe Biden on the matter.</p>
<p>“I had a chance to call the president last week and request that the Ukraine package move by itself and quickly,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He said, let me think it over. He called back in about 15 minutes and agreed that we need to do this for Ukraine only, and quickly.”</p>
<p>Polling at the time indicated that helping Ukraine was not &#8220;the most important thing going on in the world.&#8221; Inflation, illegal immigration, and the economy routinely ranked among the most important issues throughout the summer into the midterm elections.</p>
<p>McConnell and other GOP leaders opted to focus on others things — instead of presenting solutions to those problems.</p>
<p>The American people had nothing to vote for — except a GOP leader pledging to go to bat with Biden for a nation that most people can&#8217;t identify on a map.</p>
<p>Indeed, a <a href="https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Navigator-Post-Election-Survey-Release-11.16.2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent survey</a> from Navigator Research found that amongst &#8220;straight Republican&#8221; voters in the 2022 midterms, a measly 14% of them said &#8220;National security and foreign policy, including Ukraine&#8221; was amongst their &#8220;most important issues&#8221; deciding their vote in Congress. On the other hand, 64% of those voters included inflation, 45% said border security, 40% said jobs and the economy, and 35% noted crime as their top concern.</p>
<p>In other words, &#8220;most Republicans&#8221; do not agree with McConnell. Instead, they are probably wondering when America is going to have a viable opposition party to the Democrats.</p>
<p>For now, it looks like that only exists in the House of Representatives.</p>
<p>After 21 Senate Republicans <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/12/20/senate-lurches-towards-conclusion-on-massive-spending-package/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to advance the nearly $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page spending bill — which <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/45-billion-ukraine-aid-included-17-trillion-government/story?id=95614726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> $45 billion in Ukraine aid — Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) blasted his colleagues in the upper house. He also provided a translation of what the vote means</p>
<p>Roy <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1605555317802209281?s=20&amp;t=3T-tQqWNstrnOaB_pqDA8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the message is that &#8220;defense spending — for us &amp; Ukraine — trumps Americans’ concerns about mounting debt, out-of-control bureaucrats, and wide open borders.”</p>
<p>&#8220;It means &#8216;we’re the adults in the room, so sit down while we continue the status quo &amp; cut big $ deals with Democrats rather than even sit down with a new GOP majority &amp; work it out among Republicans,'&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>That translation is appreciated — though it might be better said in the Ukrainian language if Roy wants McConnell to understand it.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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