U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he prays “every night” for the two Democratic Senators actively working to disrupt President Joe Biden’s agenda, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

“We’re down to two who are resisting,” McConnell said Wednesday, according to NBC News’ Frank Thorpe V, “Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona. I pray for them every night. I wish them well. We give them lots of love.”

McConnell was referring to President Biden’s $3.5 trillion infrastructure and jobs agenda.

In May McConnell took a great deal of criticism after he declared, “One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration.”

“One hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration,” he added.

McConnell may go down in history for similar remarks he made about then-President Barack Obama, declaring in 2010, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

Manchin this week announced he could support no more than $1 trillion of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion agenda.

Republicans in Arizona’s state senate have hired a twice-failed congressional candidate with a questionable past to assist in its still-ongoing “audit” of Donald Trump’s election loss.

Shiva Ayyadurai baselessly claimed he lost his second U.S. Senate primary bid last year in Massachusetts due to the mass destruction of ballots, which predated Trump’s own election lies by a few months, and now he’s become a sought-after “expert” for GOP-led legislatures conducting bogus election audits, reported The Daily Beast.

“‘The Legislature has received voluminous evidence and testimony,” reads a letter signed Jan. 1 by 10 Arizona legislators to then-vice president Mike Pence. “One example is the testimony of Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D. (M.I.T.), on Nov. 30, 2020; Dr. Ayyadurai is one of the most respected mathematicians and experts in pattern recognition in America engaged in the examination of election results in all of the contested states. He concludes that the only explanation for the actual voting results in Arizona is that 130 percent of Democrats voted for candidate Biden and a -30 percent voted for President Trump, and 100 percent of Republicans voted for President Trump, with ‘no party affiliation’ voters split 36 percent for Biden, 58 percent for the president. In his words, such a demographic distribution is ‘highly implausible.'”

Ayyadurai has been hired twice to work on Arizona’s lengthy election audit, once by the state senate and once by the the tech firm Cyber Ninjas that’s conducting the review, and former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus suggested that Wisconsin legislators in contact with Ayyadurai.

“They’re indicating they’re going to bring in Dr. Shiva, as well, to help on the forensic audit,” Priebus told former Trump strategist Steve Bannon in a podcast.

Ayyadurai claims to have invented email in the late 1970s, and he defended the use of the N-word during his 2018 campaign as an independent against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and has associated with right-wing extremists linked to QAnon and the deadly Charlottesville rally.

He ran in the Republican Senate primary last year, when he also spread COVID-19 conspiracy theories and attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci as “deep state plant,” but Arizona’s state senate and Cyber Ninjas struck two $50,000 deals with his company to review ballots starting in July.

A spokesman for the audit said Ayyadurai first came to his attention at a November 2020 event hosted by former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and state Rep. Mark Finchem (R) later introduced him to individuals involved in the audit.

Federal investigators are seeking more information on the re-election fundraising account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Under federal law, candidates are required to reveal information about donors who contribute more than $200 aggregate in an election cycle.

During the first six months of 2022, Green’s campaign reported contributions of $4,530,887.36. However, the campaign did not reveal the source of the remaining $3,525,677.34, according to GPB News reporter Stephen Fowler.

With Greene’s campaign only reporting the source of 22 percent of its contributions, the Federal Elections Commission has sent letters asking for more information on each of Green’s 2021 quarterly reports.

Greene’s campaign has until October 12th to provide more information to the FEC.

Read the FEC’s letter below.

The Federal Election Commission wants more info about more than $3.5 million in small-dollar donations to Marjorie Taylor Greene's campaign since January.

That'd be 177k+ people giving less than the $200 threshold required to itemize contributions – which isn't impossible, tbf. pic.twitter.com/gmNqakKHKa

— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) September 7, 2021