McConnell swipes at ‘isolationist’ Rand Paul, says he represents ‘a tiny percentage’ of Senate GOP
May 20, 2022 | Melissa Fine |
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took a swipe at fellow Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) on Thursday, calling Paul an “isolationist” after he voted against the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine.
Appearing on Fox News’s “Special Report,” McConnell dismissed Paul’s opposition to the bill as representative of only “a tiny percentage” of Senate Republicans.
“My colleague, Senator Paul, has always been basically an isolationist,” McConnell told host Bret Baier. “He’s proud of it and believes that’s where America ought to be. That is a tiny percentage of the Senate Republican Conference.”
“There’s always been a strand of isolationism in our party,” McConnell continued, “but it’s not anywhere near the dominant view, which was expressed in the vote that we had today and will be expressed again when we vote on the admission of Finland and Sweden into NATO.”
Paul was one of just 11 GOP senators to oppose the massive spending bill, and while his point of view may not represent the majority of Republican lawmakers, it gathered a tremendous amount of support from Republican voters online — a fact McConnell apparently either doesn’t know about or doesn’t care about.
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