Josh Hawley blasts Mitch McConnell, GOP establishment for tanking red wave

Hawley tweeted, "Washington Republicanism lost big Tuesday night. When your 'agenda' is cave to Big Pharma on insulin, cave to Schumer on gun control & Green New Deal ('infrastructure'), and tease changes to Social Security and Medicare, you lose."

"What are Republicans actually going to do for working people? How about, to start: tougher tariffs on China, reshore American jobs, open up American energy full throttle, 100k new cops on the street. Unrig the system," Hawley added.

Races in Nevada and Arizona are still in contention but the GOP is expected to take a small majority in the House. The leadership in the Senate is unclear but a run-off is expected in Georgia between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock.

A number of Senate Republicans are calling for the leadership elections to be delayed after the lackluster midterm election. Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, and Rick Scott of Florida have circulated a letter calling on their colleagues to sign onto a postponement of the elections, which are slated for Wednesday.

According to Breitbart, Hawley said earlier in the week that he would not support McConnell for another round of his leadership.

"I don’t imagine I will, no," Hawley said about supporting McConnell.

"I'm not sure if any other senator will run or not. Nobody’s indicated they would. But my view is that we need new leadership in that position," Hawley said. The Missouri Senator criticized McConnel for his backing the ongoing war in Ukraine and capitulating to Biden and the Democrats on several contentious issues.

"I did not agree with the idea that you go out there and badmouth our own candidates in the middle of an election," Hawley added, referring back to McConnell not supporting GOP candidates in New Hampshire and Arizona.

On Friday, Blake Masters, who ran in that Arizona race, told Tucker Carlson that McConnell and the establishment were "incompetent."

"McConnell decided to spend millions of dollars attacking a fellow Republican in Alaska instead of helping me defeat Senator Mark Kelly," Masters said. "Had he chosen to spend money in Arizona this race would be over. We'd be celebrating a Senate Majority right now."

Masters then told his fellow GOP, "let's not vote Mitch McConnell into leadership. He doesn't deserve to be majority leader, or minority leader."

Speaking to Breitbart, Senator elect JD Vance from Ohio also said the time had come for new leadership.