claim: "the republican leader of the senate said his main goal after this election is simply to win the next one."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: nov 4, 2010 ... he said he's hoping to have dinner with them right after he comes back from asia  . and quickly, brian , a little election news, overtime that is. in the state of illinois ,  the president's home state, he went one for two. pat quinn , the appointed  governor who got it. he now won a full term on his own over ...
evidence_2: feb 24, 2015 ... no, his driving goal, now that he had finally become majority leader after 30  years in the senate, was for his party to win the next election. this, as i explained  in the mcconnell biography i wrote last year, is the key to understanding the  inscrutable kentuckian: he, more than any other major politician today, ...
evidence_3: oct 24, 2017 ... washington — senator jeff flake, the arizona republican who has tangled  with president trump for months, announced on tuesday that he would not ....  and a survey that the senator conducted last month led some of his own allies to  conclude that he could not win a republican primary, according to ...
evidence_4: jul 17, 2017 ... will the majority leader's desire to win lead him to wreck the institution he says he  loves? ... indeed, he writes that very quickly after he joined the senate  representing kentucky in 1985, he set one main “goal” for himself: “it was the  majority leader's desk i hoped to occupy one day.” a gig as head of the ...
evidence_5: apr 25, 2012 ... whether or not that's shocking depends on the degree to which one's view of  politics has been jaded. what's certainly noteworthy is the timing. when mitch  mcconnell said in october 2010 that his party's primary goal in the next  congress was to make obama a one-term president, it was treated as ...