As he gears up for a potential Senate run, Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana is sharpening his critique of Mitch McConnell.
That’s a shift from 2018, when Rosendale first ran for Senate. Back then, McConnell held a fundraiser for him and Rosendale suggested he’d support keeping the Kentucky Republican as the party leader when an opponent said he’d vote to replace him.
But now that he’s not the national GOP’s preferred candidate to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, Rosendale has taken to deriding McConnell as a member of “the DC cartel.”