Senate Majority Leader McConnell says everyone should 'lower the incendiary rhetoric' that is coming “from across the ideological spectrum;' says that the president is not a racist.
, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that"the tone of all of this is not good for the country,” but declined to call the president’s remarks racist.
“We’ve seen the far left throw accusations of racism at everyone, anyone who disagrees with them on anything, including the speaker of the House,” he said. Asked whether he would consider it racist if someone hypothetically told his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, to go back to her country, McConnell declined to answer.
Earlier in the day, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said at a news conference that he did not believe Trump's tweets were racist.
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