WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Ahead of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's, R-Ken., meeting with likely Republican presidential Donald Trump on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., took to the Senate floor to offer harsh criticism of his GOP counterpart.
Reid argued that McConnell's pledge to support Trump is a sign that the Republican leader agrees with the real estate tycoon's controversial statements about women, Latinos, and Muslims.
'Since Senator McConnell is so enthusiastically embracing Trump, you can only assume he agrees with Trump's view that women are dogs and pigs,' Reid said.
He added, 'You can only assume that the Republicans Leader is not repulsed by Trump's behavior towards women.'
Reid also suggested McConnell approves of Trump calling immigrants racists and murderers as well as his 'insane' plan to build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it.
Despite continued signs of division within the GOP, the Democratic leader also claimed Trump is everything that McConnell and his party could ever want in a nominee.
'At some point in their conversation Donald Trump should thank the senior senator from Kentucky,' Reid said. 'Trump owes his candidacy to the Republican leader and to the policies that he's led.'
'It was an obstructionist, anti-woman, anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, anti-middle class, anti-environment and anti-Obama and anti-everything Republican Party of the last eight years that made Donald Trump a reality,' he added.
McConnell and other members of his leadership team met with Trump later on Thursday and subsequently described the meeting as 'constructive.'
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