Al Franken actually said...

"You know, this is just part of the big lie. You know, if Trump had won, he would have been touting the vaccine, he would have said, Oh, I -- it was my idea to go as fast as you could to get a vaccine ..."

"It is, I still believe it will happen. Because it kind of has to, and I wish they would get on with it."

"And that is an existential threat to our democracy."

"I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules."