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:
