Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Monday that a race between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump would be a choice between the lesser of two evils.
In an interview with KSKY radio first flagged by BuzzFeed News, McConnell was asked what he would say to voters who consider the 2016 election a race between the “lesser of two evils.”
“Well, it just is,” McConnell said. “That’s an honest answer. This is a choice that many Americans are not happy with. But it is the choice.”
McConnell criticized Trump earlier in the interview for isolating Hispanic voters and said he needed to “tone things down.” But the majority leader reaffirmed that he’d be supporting the businessman’s candidacy.
“I think he needs to change to win,” McConnell said.
Clinton’s opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), also has said that voters would consider a Clinton-Trump general election match-up a decision between the “lesser of two evils.”
Listen to McConnell’s comments below:
…and I know evil. I was born of it.
There, finished it for you McTurtle.
Sorry, Senator, but you cannot distance yourself from your candidate now. Thanks to years and years of grievance politics and stoking racial/class animus, your party’s voters served you a shit sandwich. Bite. Chew. Swallow. Repeat.
Who knew that some of our resident Sanders dead-enders were really just McConnell fans still in the closet and channeling their inner Mitch?
Clinton is hardly my ‘ideal’ candidate, but she is not even on the bad side of the good/evil dividing line.
It’s a choice between not getting anything done and not getting anything done that Bitch wants.