Outgoing Minority Leader Harry Reid continued his "Reid Unplugged" tour Monday from the Senate floor, tying Mitch McConnell's complete failure to denounce Donald Trump's racist rants against a federal judge to the candidate's rise and ultimate success among GOP voters. Here’s a partial transcript:
By refusing to denounce Trump’s attack on a federal judge for the racism it clearly connotes, it shows Senator McConnell is the poster boy for Republicans’ spinelessness that allowed Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. [...]
The Republican Leader is waging a non-stop campaign to persuade Republicans who have doubts about supporting Trump to drop their complaints and fall in line. [...]
Senator McConnell said last week—and this is a quote—“we know that Donald Trump will make the right kind of Supreme Court appointments.” Close quote. After Donald Trump’s latest attacks on the Judiciary, does he truly believe that Trump is the right man to pick nominees to our nation’s highest court? The Republican Leader defended Trump’s temperament, saying he—and again I will quote—“would be fine” as president, "would be fine."
I ask the Senator from Kentucky: Is it “fine” when Donald Trump calls women pigs and dogs?
Is it “fine” when Trump calls immigrants rapists and murderers?
Is it “fine” that his party’s presidential candidate urges violence at rallies?
These aren't rhetorical questions. The Republican Leader has so fully embraced Donald Trump that we are all unclear as to where Trump’s platform ends and the Senate Republicans’ begins. If Republicans really think that a man who believes in religious and ethnic tests for a federal judge is fit to be President of the United States, they must explain why this is acceptable.
In short, McConnell (and really anyone who's endorsed Trump), owns Trump’s deplorable agenda. You can watch Reid’s full nine-minute denunciation of McConnell and the GOP below.