'I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years,' McConnell said on the Senate floor. 'I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.'
"I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday."
Republican obstruction, he said, has left Democrats with "no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this.""Unfortunately, President Biden has rejected the better angels of our nature. So it is the Senate's responsibility to protect the country," McConnell said.
As he was departing, Biden stopped by McConnell's office, but McConnell said they "didn't connect" because he wasn't in his office. “I don’t need to do that. I think I said what I felt about yesterday," McConnell told NBC News.