Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he does not mind the droves of protesters who have turned up at Republican lawmakers’ town halls across the country, including one recent incident in Kentucky.
“My assumption is these are dedicated liberal Americans who are in support of Obamacare and they are coming out to express their opposition. There’s nothing wrong with that. I mean, there’s somebody protesting in Washington every day about something,” McConnell told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum in an interview that aired Wednesday evening.
“Protests in America are as an American as apple pie. I am not agitated about it. I don’t care whether they were organized, were not organized, they have a right to do what they are doing. They don’t like this new administration.”
McConnell was grilled at an event in Lawrenceburg, Ky., on Feb. 21 by constituents concerned about losing their healthcare if Obamacare is repealed. One unnamed woman blasted the senior senator for his 30 years of service all while the state has “too damn many people on food stamps.”
The Republican told MacCallum the demonstrators who turned out nationwide to town halls while Congress was not in session all have one thing in common.
“Not a single one of them voted for people like Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell and that’s okay,” McConnell said. “They can come out and demonstrate as long as they want to. But we won the election and with winning the election comes a responsibility to produce results, and we feel that Obamacare is a disaster and need to be changed.”
