“I think the way these behaviors fit in this country is at the polls,” McConnell said at an event in Pikeville, Kentucky. “The president will not be removed from office with a Democratic House and a narrowly democratic Senate. That will not happen.”
McConnell’s statements came nearly a week after a suicide attack outside Kabul airport killed 13 members of the U.S. service and more than 170 civilians. The organization that claimed responsibility for the deadly blast is known as Khorasan Islamic State or ISIS-K.
Some Republicans, including Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, have since said the president should resign or face impeachment.
Biden defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops in a speech at the White House on Tuesday, a day after the last U.S. military aircraft left the country, marking the end of the longest U.S. war. Biden also paid tribute to deployed service members, including the 13 who died in the terrorist strike.
“The bottom line is that there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can execute without the kind of complexity, challenge, and threats we face. None,” he said.