Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Friday that the last 18 months under President Trump has been the most productive time for the conservative movement in his 34 years in the Senate.
“I’m now in the 34th year in the Senate, hard to believe,” McConnell said Friday morning at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “This has been, if you want America to be a right of center nation, this last year-and-a-half has been the best year-and-a-half in my time in the Senate.”
“And, the reason you should know that, is look how angry the Left is. The angrier they get, the better we are doing.”
McConnell noted the 26 circuit court judges that Trump has nominated and the Senate has confirmed. He also mentioned the 2017 GOP tax reform bill, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and what he believes will be the successful confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
“You’ve watched the fight, you’ve watched the tactics,” McConnell said Friday. “But here is what I want to tell you, in the very near future Judge Kavanaugh will be on the United States Supreme Court.”
The majority leader said if Republicans maintain control of the Senate, he is optimistic that the Senate will confirm more conservative judges and transform the federal court system for years to come.
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