US Senator Mitch McConnell slams liberal group for criticising Asian wife
McConnell forcefully defended Chao, who was born in Taiwan and who moved to the US as an 8-year-old with her family aboard a freight ship.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticising the Asian heritage of his wife, former Labour Secretary Elaine Chao, calling its Twitter messages “racial slurs” and “the ultimate outrage.”
McConnell forcefully defended Chao, who was born in Taiwan and who moved to the US as an 8-year-old with her family aboard a freight ship.
“They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign,” McConnell told about 100 home-state supporters at a Republican dinner in Winchester.
“This woman has the ear of McConnellPress — she’s his wife,” the group Progress Kentucky tweeted on Feb. 14. “May explain why your job moved to China!”
They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign
Progress Kentucky removed the offending comments from Twitter after Louisville public radio station WFPL-FM aired reports about them. And the group issued two apologies over the past week for what they described as “inappropriate tweets sent by our organisation.”
“Elaine Chao is just as much an American as any of the rest of them,” McConnell said. “In fact, she had to go through a lot more to become an American.”