Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joked Monday that protesters waited until his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, wasn’t with by his side to heckled him outside of a restaurant in Louisville over the weekend.
“I see what they did here. They waited until Elaine wasn’t around. -MM #dontleavehomewithouther,” McConnell tweeted from the Team Mitch Twitter account.
I see what they did here. They waited until Elaine wasn’t around. -MM #dontleavehomewithouther https://t.co/tfjLu0IRok
— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) July 9, 2018
A few weeks ago, McConnell was yelled at by protesters outside of an event in Georgetown that he was attending with his wife.
“You leave my husband alone,” Chao could be heard yelling at protesters in a video. “Leave my husband alone.”
On Saturday, McConnell was again confronted by protesters while he was leaving a restaurant in Kentucky, without his wife this time.
Protesters could be heard asking McConnell about the whereabouts of immigrant children who had been separated from their families under the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration.
The demonstrators followed him as he walked away from the spectacle, and chanted “Vote you out,” “Abolish ICE,” and “No justice, no peace.”
