.MaddowBlog: Senate Majority Leader McConnell seeks contributions for his Supreme Court brazenness.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 5/30/19, 9:43 PM ET Republican disregard for democratic norms didn't start with Trump Rachel Maddow points out that Republicans were already engaged in hyper-partisan behavior against President Barack Obama, before that hyper-partisanship became couched in blind allegiance to Donald Trump’s destruction of democratic standards of conduct.
McConnell followed up his remarks by issuing a fundraising appeal Wednesday, saying he was “proud” to have blocked Garland’s confirmation in 2016. The man effectively “broke” American politics recently made the theft of a Supreme Court seat the centerpiece of his re-election campaign kickoff. This week, McConnell smirked as he admitted that everything he said in 2016 was a sham.
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