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Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was enjoying a piping hot cup of schadenfreude Wednesday morning as the Democrats appear poised to regain control of the Senate, posting a tweet mocking the pending title change for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to Senate Minority Leader.
The networks called the race late Tuesday night for Raphael Warnock (D) over Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R), and Jon Ossoff (D) has a several thousand vote lead over Sen. David Perdue (R), with the ballots that remain to be counted from mainly Democratic-leaning areas.
Clinton started Wednesday morning with a tweet congratulating Warnock and Ossoff and “everyone who organized and voted to get them there.”
She also retweeted a 2016 tweet from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that has inspired a lot of mocking retweets for its prescience. “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it,” wrote Graham.
Then, Clinton spiked the football with a five-word declaratory sentence: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.