Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday urged Democrats and Republicans to tone down their rhetoric but insisted that President Donald Trump is not a racist, after he tweeted over the weekend that minority Democratic lawmakers should "go back" to where they came from.
"The president is not a racist," McConnell said after reporters pressed him on whether Trump's tweets were racist or whether the GOP leader himself would ever use such language, according to The Hill.