Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) isn’t pulling any punches in describing anti-Trump protesters as “the mob” and the “scary prospect” of the Democrats taking control of the Senate in the midterm elections.
“Lose the Senate, and the project of confirming judges is over for the last two years of President Trump,” McConnell told National Public Radio (NPR). “That, I think, is a scary prospect to the people who like what we’ve been doing on the judge project and I hope will help us hold on to our majority.”
McConnell has said the circus and protests orchestrated by leftists and Senate Democrats have turned out to be a “gift” to the GOP with constituents fired up after the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
“The Kentucky Republican said it awakened them to the Supreme Court cause — an issue that inspired many of the same voters to back Trump in 2016,” NPR reported.
“But what we are now seeing is that the enthusiasm and energy on the Republican side come close to matching the Democratic side, and given the states that we’re competing in, that’s really good news for us,” McConnell said.
NPR reported on McConnell called out the anti-Kavanaugh protesters for threatening and intimidating Republican lawmakers after Christine Blasey Ford accused the now Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a high school party decades ago.
“We were literally under assault ourselves,” McConnell said. “Trailing members for their homes; getting in their faces here in the Capitol.”
“An effort clearly to try and intimidate us,” McConnell said.
McConnell told NPR he was proud of Kavanaugh’s confirmation because the GOP stood their ground and, in the end, were able to confirm Kavanaugh after an FBI probe could not find anyone to collaborate Ford’s story.
“We stood up to the mob, and we also stood up for the presumption of innocence in this country,” McConnell said.
Follow Penny Starr on Twitter
COMMENTS
Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting.