In 'The Price of Power,' McConnell says Trump's MAGA movement is 'completely wrong'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : And later, after the Republican party selected Trump as its nominee in 2024, he also endorsed him.
45% : His exit from his position atop his conference is colored by his fracture from Trump and the direction he has taken the party.
43% : "On Feb. 13, 2021, McConnell gave a floor speech in which he laid blame for the insurrection on Trump.
42% : Despite all of this, in the leadup to the 2020 election, McConnell still appeared at a rally with Trump in Kentucky.
42% : That speech focused largely on the impact that Trump and McConnell had jointly on influencing the federal courts.
39% : As Trump began rising in prominence as a possible nominee in 2016, McConnell described him as "this most unusual nominee.""What I tried to do, since I had candidates in different states dealing with the Trump factor differently, was to keep my mouth shut, because I didn't want to become an issue in a given Senate race," McConnell told his oral historian shortly after the election, according to the book.
38% : Instead, "Trump got right in the middle of it and tried to get Moore elected, and, amazingly enough, Alabama elected a Democrat to the Senate."
34% : Ryan described Trump in the book as an "amoral narcissist.
32% : "I recommended Trump stay out of it," McConnell said.
27% : "Even before the 2020 election, McConnell's relationship with Trump was a rocky one.
16% : McConnell said he believed what Trump did on Jan. 6 was an "impeachable offense.
10% : MORE: Military officials debating speaking out against Trump but wary of retribution: Former Pence adviserThe book details the behind-the-scenes relationship between McConnell and then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said they "took turns" talking to Trump.
8% : For years, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's distaste for former President Donald Trump has been characterized through calculated restraint, but in a new biography on McConnell set to be released next week, McConnell criticizes the former president in no uncertain terms, at varying points calling Trump "stupid," "ill-tempered," a "narcissist" and a "despicable human being.
6% : A look at the term being hurled at Donald Trump"The Price of Power" details McConnell's increasing dissatisfaction with Trump leading up to the 2020 election and in the days that followed.
6% : They call him a threat to democracy: ANALYSISIt was a political calculation McConnell made that differentiated him from some of Trump's more vocal opponents like Rep. Liz Cheney, who lost her primary largely because she dared to challenge Trump.

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