Mitch McConnell votes to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director avoiding 50-50 tie

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the surprising decision to vote in favor of confirming Kash Patel as FBI Director avoiding a 50-50 Senate tie.

Patel, one of President Donald Trump's most contentious nominees, was confirmed 51-49 thanks to McConnell choosing to not defy Trump after voting against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's nomination. 

McConnell, along with Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME), voted against Hegseth leading to a tied vote.

Vice President JD Vance had to intervene and cast a tie-breaking vote to get Hegseth confirmed and it appeared that Patel's confirmation hearing would go the same way.

However, McConnell appears to have had enough of the backlash and understood that even if he voted against Patel, Vance would step in yet again and it would be another two weeks of McConnell getting raked across the coals.

McConnell Surrenders

Patel has had a long path to confirmation as he was advanced through the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month on a 12 to 10 vote to the Senate floor for a full vote.

Democrats have done everything in their power to hold up Patel's nomination as he is one of Trump's most important cabinet nominations.

Patel is a firebrand who is one of Trump's most loyal supporters and will be tasked with cleaning out the FBI of leftist ideologues who were responsible for the political indictments against Trump over the past few years.

Patel has already allegedly been directing the mass firings at the FBI which Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, used to hold up Patel's nomination.

The allegations were quickly refuted by Patel but that wasn't enough to stop Democrats from trying to delay his inevitable confirmation.

McConnell has gone from the leader of the Senate GOP to a reviled figure and is planning on retiring once his term is up. McConnell will retire with a shattered legacy and clearly didn't want to make more enemies by fruitlessly opposing Patel.

Purging The Deep State

The longer Democrats could delay Patel's confirmation, the more time the deep state has to shred files and burn any evidence on the investigations into Trump. The partisan investigation of Trump is Patel's primary concern in his new role as FBI director.

Patel also has other reforms for the FBI in mind as he is interested in cleaning up the American justice system that has become corrupt after decades of stagnation and entropy.

Patel believes that the FBI should be oriented around law enforcement again rather than prosecutorial activities. Patel wants to "let good cops be cops" and promote transparency, an objective that the Trump administration as a whole has been pursuing.

The coming months will be eventful as Patel gets to work carrying out Trump's agenda and bringing real change to one of the nation's most important, and corrupted, organizations.