Senate GOP leader McConnell blames Zika impasse on Clinton

On Tuesday, shortly after Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination, McConnell publicly banished all doubts about the New Yorker’s readiness for the White House and trained all of his fire on Hillary Clinton. Over the past few years they’ve seen government abuse their office and get rewarded for it. They’ve seen the middle class actually shrink. It’s not Hillary. I’ve had my difference with Barack Obama, but I’ll give him credit for this. To the far left.

“She lied about her emails. She lied about Benghazi”, McConnell said.

“So much that you and I care about, so many things we stand for, are in the balance in the coming election”. Why even she lied about why her parents named her Hillary. “The facts and details of her life and career disqualify her”, he said.

“Not since Baghdad Bob has there been such a public figure with such a tortured relationship with the truth”, McConnell told the crowed, referencing former Iraqi official Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf under Saddam Hussein.

“Here we are, at a time when men and women in both parties so clearly, so undeniably want a big change in direction for America. And you know that if Hillary is president, we will continue to slide, distracted by the scandals that follow the Clintons like flies”.

McConnell has long wanted the position he now holds as the Senate majority leader, and he once famously said his goal was to make President Obama a one-term president.

Trump’s children, Donald Jr. and Tiffany, will also speak about their father.

His praise for the real estate mogul was, well, underwhelming: “Only with Donald Trump and Mike Pence do we have a chance at a better way”. In June after the last primary of the season, McConnell said Trump’s use of a teleprompter was “a good start”.

We passed a bill to finally build the Keystone pipeline. We’ve already passed the first major education reform in more than a decade, and ended Common Core. Republicans made changes to the legislation that would actually make it harder to prevent the spread of Zika, including a provision that would hamstring Planned Parenthood. When McConnell takes the stage, he is expected to mostly ignore the whole reason thousands of people are in Cleveland in the first place – his criticism of the nominee hanging in the air – and stick to the safe zone of attacking Hillary Clinton.

Here’s what I mean. And, they weren’t finished. “You know what the next four years will look like with Hillary”. “Tonight I’m here to return the favor”.

He also highlighted the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.