Mitch McConnell Swipes At Trump Over ‘Poisoning The Blood’ Remark
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The Senate minority leader invoked his wife, Elaine Chao, in a snarky reaction to the former president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell vaguely rebuked Donald Trump’s recent remarks about immigrants, invoking his wife, Elaine Chao.
CNN’s Manu Raju asked the Kentucky Republican about the former president’s controversial claim on Saturday that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
McConnell said, “Well, it strikes me that didn’t bother him when he appointed Elaine Chao, secretary of transportation.”
He did not explicitly answer Raju’s question about whether he was comfortable with his party’s leading presidential candidate using that language.
McConnell rarely weighs in publicly on matters relating to Trump. Their relationship soured after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
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