Source: CNN Politics

Updated 8:42 PM EDT, Wed October 23, 2024

CNN -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the "MAGA movement is completely wrong" and that Ronald Reagan "wouldn't recognize" the party today.

"I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn't recognize today," McConnell told the Associated Press' Michael Tackett for the upcoming biography "The Price of Power" obtained by CNN ahead of its release.

McConnell added that the former president has "done a lot of damage to our party's image and our ability to compete."

"Trump is appealing to people who haven't been as successful as other people and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow been cheated, and you don't deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven't been fair," he said. Some of McConnell's strongest comments were focused on Trump's behavior after he lost the election in 2020, calling him "erratic."

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