Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) celebrated a Senate test vote to advance a House-passed $95.3 billion foreign aid bill, and took aim at conservative media personality Tucker Carlson for influencing what he called the “demonization of Ukraine.”

“I think the demonization of Ukraine began with Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin,” McConnell said, answering questions from reporters on Tuesday. “He had an enormous audience, which convinced a bunch of rank-and-file Republicans that maybe this was a mistake.”