While Donald Trump burns down the Republican party the Majority Leader of the Senate—the guy up there with Paul Ryan at the top of the Republican leadership—is continuing day three of silence on Trump as the nominee. He issued a statement after the video tape of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women saying the words were "repugnant," but didn't withdraw his support of the nominee.
And then he retreated back into his shell for the weekend, only to emerge on Monday to refuse to say Trump's name. “If any of you are here are thinking I’m going to elaborate on the presidential debate, let me disabuse you of that notion,” he said, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “If you’re interested in anything else, please stay. If you’re interested in the presidential election, you might as well get up and leave, because I don’t have any observations to make on that.”
"In my job as majority leader of the Senate I've found that my observations, no matter where I make them, are immediately sort of spun around the world and I don't have anything to add on the presidential race today," he added, according to the Associated Press.
Perhaps that's because the question he would get is whether he's keeping up his eight-month blockade of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland so that this presidential candidate he's refusing to talk about could fill it. Because it's a valid question, one that he's been avoiding for months. Better just to snap his mouth shut on everything.
Let's put this way. Can you chip in $3 to each of these candidates to end Mitch McConnell's Senate leadership?
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