Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he loved the attention he received during the first Democratic primary debate.
“Being criticized for stopping the liberal agenda and confirming conservatives judges, I love it,” McConnell said, according to the Hill. He said the criticisms he got from the candidates did not bother him because “the things they are criticizing me for, I plead guilty to.”
McConnell has leaned into the nickname “The Grim Reaper” for not holding votes on bills that pass the House.
“I am indeed the Grim Reaper when it comes to the socialist agenda that they have been ginning up over in the House with overwhelming Democratic support and sending it over to America, things that would turn us into a country we’ve never been,” he said.
Because of the amount of times McConnell was referenced, Google searches for him spiked 2,000% during the debate.
Searches for Mitch McConnell (@senatemajldr) have spiked +2,000% to make him the top trending search query on all of Google during the second half of the debate.https://t.co/I0WiP7r7bt
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) June 27, 2019
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that if she becomes president, she has a plan to stop McConnell. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he would get rid of the Senate filibuster in order to help solve climate change.
