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Mitch McConnell calls Biden's speech 'incoherent' and 'beneath his office'
"How profoundly — profoundly — unpresidential," McConnell said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. "I've known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday."
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McConnell said that Biden's speech is further proof of why the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation, should stand.
"You could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than what we've just seen, a President abandoning rational persuasion for pure, pure, demagoguery," McConnell said. "A president shouting that 52 senators and millions of Americans are racist unless he gets whatever he wants is proving exactly why the framers built the Senate to check his power."
"This whole display is the best possible argument for preserving ... the Senate rules that extend deliberation, force bipartisan compromise, and let cooler heads prevail," he said. "It offers a perfect case study in why Senator Biden was right about the filibuster and President Biden is wrong."
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