McConnell says GOP Senate could be lost and says Dems will ‘decide how many hamburgers you can eat’

Senate Majority Mitch McConnell begged voters to keep the Senate in GOP hands, telling Republican National Convention viewers that the ‘stakes have never been higher.’ 

He said that if Washington, D.C., were to get two liberal senators, ‘we can’t undo the damage they’ve done,’ with the Democrats already in control of the House and the election looking like it could deliver the Senate to the Democrats too. 

McConnell’s address was pre-recorded from Louisville, Kentucky and included a litany of reasons Republicans should be scared of Democratic rule, including that the party would limit ‘how many hamburgers you can eat.’ 

‘Today’s Democrat party doesn’t want to improve life for middle America. They prefer that all of us in flyover country keep quiet and let them decide how we should live our lives,’ McConnell said, pointing out in his opening that he was the only Senate or House leader not from New York or California. 

That includes his own party’s House leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California. 

‘This election is incredibly consequential for middle America,’ McConnell said.   

Democrats, he argued, wanted to ‘tell you when you can go to work’ and ‘when your kids can go to school,’ likely references to Democratic governors’ shutdown orders throughout this year’s coronavirus pandemic. 

‘They want to tax your job out of existence, and then send you a government check for unemployment,’ he went on.

When he delivered the ‘hamburger’ line, he gave it with a grin.   

He also knocked Democrats for wanting to ‘defund the police,’ which some on the ultra-left of the party have called for, but is mostly a call from ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists. Democratic nominee Joe Biden has said he’s against defunding the police. 

‘They want free health care for illegal immigrants, yet they offer no protection at all for unborn Americans,’ he said. 

He then turned to the threat of Washington, D.C., where its more than 700,000 residents have no vote in Congress.  

 ‘And they want to codify all of this by making the swamp itself – Washington, D.C. – America’s 51st state,’ he said. ‘With two more liberal senators, we cannot undo the damage they’ve done.’

The House of Representatives passed a D.C. statehood bill in June, but the Senate under McConnell’s leadership won’t touch it. 

‘Now you understand why Democrats spent an entire week telling us about who Joe Biden is – not what he intends to do,’ McConnell said. 

McConnell, who stayed out of Washington for President Donald Trump’s Thursday night White House address, spoke about the president too.  

‘President Trump knows he inherited the first generation of Americans who couldn’t promise their children a better life than their own,’ McConnell said. ‘He has made it his mission of this Administration to change that. I know, because I work beside him every day.’ 

He concluded his remarks by asking Americans to support ‘Republican Senate candidates across the country.’ 

‘And re-elect my friend, President Donald Trump,’ McConnell said.