The Senate majority leader voiced frustration over the moniker, given him for blocking two election security bills.
“Moscow Mitch” has gained traction as a nickname for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the powerful Kentucky Republican is none too happy about that.
“It’s modern-day McCarthyism,” he said. “Unbelievable for a Cold Warrior like me who spent a career standing up to the Russians to be given a moniker like that. It’s an effort to smear me.” In July, McConnell thwarted a House-passed measure that sought to authorize $775 million to fortify state election systems and require paper ballots for added security. He also blocked a separate proposal that would have required candidates as well as their staffers and family members to alert federal authorities if offered aid by foreign governments ― a measure sparked by the various revelations into Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 election.
Continuing to voice his frustration over his inability to shake the tag, McConnell told Hewitt it’s a product of “what we’re up against with the hard left today in America.”
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