Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) described President Joe Biden as a “good guy,” while former President Donald Trump called Biden “Bad Joe.”
Speaking to a crowd in Louisville on Tuesday, McConnell said he likes Biden “personally” but Disagree According to Biden’s policy: hillMcConnell also accused Biden of “aligning himself with the far left of the Democratic Party” and creating a “regulatory nightmare.”
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“I know Joe Biden very well,” McConnell said. “He’s a good guy. I like him personally.”
McConnell’s comments about Biden contrast with what the former president has said about Biden.
Trump on Wednesday described Biden as a “walking lying machine” following the announcement that there would be no real-time fact-checkers during the presidential debate.
In March, President Trump responded to Biden’s State of the Union address by saying the effects of Biden’s medication were “wearing off.”
The former president called Biden “Crooked Joe” in April 2023, saying there has “never been a more crooked, more dishonest man in the history of American politics” than Joe Biden.
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The Kentucky senator added that while Biden ran as a moderate, he “never considered myself a moderate” during his time in the Senate.
“I don’t think he was a moderate when he was in the Senate, but he ran as a moderate,” McConnell explained, “but as soon as he was elected president, he joined the far left wing of the Democratic Party, and that created new problems for the business community.”
McConnell added that Biden had made a “deal with the far-left wing” of the Democratic Party that was a “regulatory nightmare created by this administration.”
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The Kentucky senator, no fan of Trump, recently met with the former president and other senators at a meeting of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, marking the first time McConnell and Trump have met in years.
McConnell endorsed Trump in March 2024, explaining that it was “abundantly clear that former President Trump had the necessary support from the Republican base” to become the Republican presidential nominee, and that it was “no surprise” that Trump would receive McConnell’s support.
Al Cross, director emeritus of the University of Kentucky’s Rural Journalism Institute, told the outlet that McConnell may be trying to “appeal to Republicans” who dislike the former president by focusing on Biden’s policies rather than his personality.
