McConnell Defends Blocking Election Security Bills

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), under fire for blocking two election security bills, hit back on Monday comparing the attacks against him to “modern-day McCarthyism,” The Hill reports.

Said McConnell: “I was called unpatriotic, un-American and essentially treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on the basis of bold-faced lies. I was accused of aiding and abetting the very man I’ve singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years, Vladimir Putin.”

He added: “These theatrical requests happen all the time here on the Senate. I promise that nobody involved, including my friend the Democratic Leader who made the request, actually thought he’d get a Republican Senate to instantly unanimously pass a bill that got one Republican vote over in the House It doesn’t make Republicans traitors or un-American. It makes us policymakers with a different opinion.”