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Mitch McConnell: “We were literally under assault. These demonstrators, I'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens, but many of them…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2018
We were literally under assault. These demonstrators, I'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens, but many of them are obviously trained to get in our faces, to go to our homes up there, to basically almost attack us in the halls of the Capitol.
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Mitch McConnell
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

McConnell describes the protests against Kavanaugh's nomination as a physical threat to lawmakers.

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