Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at press conference outside the Senate chamber this month.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Some Republicans have promoted a version of the "replacement theory" that motivated the Buffalo shooter. Insider and 2 other reporters repeatedly asked McConnell about the theory, but he wouldn't denounce it. He said racism "ought to be stood up to by everybody, both Republicans and Democrats." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said racism in all its forms is "abhorrent" but sidestepped questions about his party's association with the so-called replacement theory at his weekly press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday.McConnell was speaking just days after a white man shot and killed 10 people in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo, New York."This horrible episode in Buffalo is a result of a completely deranged young man who ought to suffer as severe as possible penalty under the law," he said when asked whether he has the responsibility to speak out on the theory as a Republican leader.

 

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