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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell mocked President Joe Biden during an interview on Thursday evening over Biden’s widely criticized press conference this week and warned that Democrats are about to reap in the 2022 midterms what they have sown during the Biden administration with the Democratic Party in full control of Washington, D.C.
When asked by Fox News host Bret Baier what he thought of Biden’s press conference, McConnell responded, “Well, if I were the president, I don’t think I would have a two-hour press conference again.”
After discussing Biden’s troubling remark about a possible “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine, McConnell addressed Biden’s attack on him when Biden accused McConnell of being willing to “do anything to prevent Biden from being a success.”
“Well, my good friend the president got it wrong once again,” McConnell responded. “I helped him pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. I supported in the Senate a bill to deal with China and the computer chip shortage. If the president starts acting like a moderate, like he campaigned, we can do business. The reason we have not been speaking recently, this year, is because he adopted the Bernie Sanders prescription for America. He did that even though he got no mandate for it, a 50/50 Senate and a couple-of-seat majority in the House. And they couldn’t get it through.”
“And the reason I couldn’t get it through, the American people are not for all of this,” he added. “They thought they were electing a moderate. If the president wants to reinvent himself and come back to the middle, we have things to talk about that we can work on together.”
McConnell then warned Biden and the Democrats about what they were going to face later this year.
“I think the midterm election almost certainly is going to be a referendum on the party in power,” McConnell said. “This is an entirely Democratic government, Democratic president, House, and Senate. They are in charge of governing. And these midterm elections are always a report card on the performance of those who are in charge, those who are governing. I think the American people are about to send this administration a pretty big message that they do not approve of all the things that are going wrong.”
