McConnell says Republicans will 'make sure Joe Biden is a moderate' if the party regains control of Congress in 2022

Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell said on Sunday that Republicans will make sure Joe Biden is a moderate if they regain control of Congress.

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the Kentucky Republican told Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, that Republicans would prioritize issues they have sought to hold influence over.

If we are fortunate to be in a majority, our agenda next year will be focused on crime, education, and the defense of our country.

We have big power competition with the Russians and the Chinese. We have to meet the demands of the international situation. All of those will be on our agenda.

McConnell said that the economy, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and energy production are all issues that the administration has fumbled.

He told Perino that he thought they were headed toward a good beating in the election.

McConnell has a long personal and working relationship with Biden, who represented Delaware in the upper chamber from 1973 to 2009.

McConnell said he would move the agenda in a more conservative direction.

He said that they wouldn't have the presidency for two more years.

Let me put it this way. Biden was a moderate. If Kevin McCarthy is the speaker of the House and I am the majority leader in the Senate, we will make sure Joe Biden is a moderate.

McConnell has been denounced by Democrats for years for his hardball legislative tactics when he was in charge of the agenda.

After Donald Trump won the presidential election, he was able to fill the open seat with a conservative judge. When Republicans took over the Senate, they slowed down the process for Obama to make appointments to lower court vacancies.