McConnell: Biden is 'first-rate person' leading 'left-wing administration'
By Jordain Carney - 04/01/21 01:48 PM EDT Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that he likes President Biden personally, but he vowed to fight a political agenda he said is "going in exactly the wrong direction."
"I like him personally, I mean, we've been friends for a long time. He's a first-rate person. Nevertheless, this is a bold, left-wing administration. I don't think they have a mandate to do what they're doing," McConnell told reporters in Kentucky on Thursday.
McConnell, comparing his job as minority leader to being a "defensive coordinator," added that Republicans were in "a reactive mode."
"I would love to find some things that we can agree on," he said, but added there are "big philosophical differences and that's going to make it more and more difficult for us to reach bipartisan agreements."
McConnell and Biden served together in the Senate and cut deals during the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president and McConnell was either majority or minority leader. When Biden completed his final term as vice president in January 2017, meaning he was also finished being president of the Senate, senators including McConnell lauded him on the Senate floor.
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