As Michael Tesler, a political [science professor] at the University of California, Irvine who wrote about the survey data for FiveThirtyEight, noted, McConnell’s net favorability among a majority of Republicans “plummeted after he officially recognized Biden as the president-elect in mid-December, but his net favorability nosedived even further after he sharply rebuked Trump’s baseless ‘conspiracy theories’ during his Jan. 6 address to Congress.”

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