Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who has endorsed Donald Trump, declined twice to say whether Trump is qualified to be president during a Sunday interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I think there’s no question that he’s made a number of mistakes over the last few weeks. I think they’re beginning to right the ship,” McConnell said when first asked if Trump is qualified. “It’s a long time until November. And the burden, obviously, will be on him to convince people that he can handle this job.”
“And I think a good step in the right direction was the changes he made in the campaign. He’s beginning to use a prepared script more often, which I think is absolutely appropriate for any candidate, whether you’re a long-time politician like Hillary Clinton or whether you’re new to the game like Donald Trump,” the majority leader continued.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos then told McConnell, “I didn’t hear you say whether you thought he was qualified.”
“Look, I’ll leave that to the American people to decide. You know, he won the Republican nomination fair and square. He got more votes than anybody else against a whole lot of well-qualified candidates. And so our primary voters have made their decision as to who they want to be the nominee,” McConnell replied. “The American people will be able to make that decision in the fall.”
Watch the interview at ABC News.
And make no mistake – by and large, the American voter is nothing like today’s GOP primary voter.
What were those talking points again? Oh yeah.
And yet, and yet, if this was Hilary spewing this kind of hate, McConnel would be all over it, like a turtle on lettuce.
Every day this great fat turd shows the total absence of ethics and concern for the country. I guess anyone who is a whore to the NRA for nearly a million dollars cannot be trusted to do anything for the good of the country.
To say I hate him with the intensity of a thousand suns would be an understatement.
I have never wished a man ill but good people die every day and this waste of human blood continues to walk and talk.
I wish he didn’t look so much like a turtle. I love turtles. One of my favorites is the spider turtle in Madagascar … beautiful markings. If we don’t watch it, they’ll soon be extinct. Damn you, Bitch McConnell – why aren’t you doing more to support preserving the natural environment for your counterparts (in looks only, cause there’s little about you–that I can see–that’s beautiful or worth preserving).
Short answer: “No I don’t think he’s qualified.” It’s basically the same parsing of words that gets you support but not endorse.