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McConnell soothes fears of a racist White House by noting slavery-era elections https://t.co/9wWhak9G2n pic.twitter.com/5ZK0sg7EZO
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) November 16, 2016
“Well look, you know, American campaigns are pretty robust,” McConnell said. “I think a lot of Americans don’t realize we’ve had a lot of elections like this in the past. I’m thinking of 1824 ― Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Adams,” he said.
Jackson was a slaveowner and Clay’s compromises helped preserve slavery until not long before the Civil War.
“Almost anything I heard in the course of this campaign pales in comparison to what Adams and Jefferson said about each other, usually in unsigned documents,” McConnell said. “American campaigns are pretty spirited, pretty robust. What’s different is with the internet, and 24-hour TV, everybody [is] constantly confronted with all this.”
He went on to tell Americans to get over it and move on with their lives.