Trump sparks Republican backlash after saying immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of the US’

Mitch McConnell invoked his wife to take a rare swipe at Donald Trump over his controversial comments claiming that migrants are “poisoning the blood” of the US.

The Senate Minority leader, who has a fraught relationship with the former president, was asked about Mr Trump’s language which has been likened to the rhetoric used in Nazi Germany.

Trump, the Republican frontrunner, again railed against undocumented immigrants in language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing Nazi rhetoric. But Trump told his supporters on Tuesday that, despite the comparisons, he had never read Adolf Hitler’s manifesto, “Mein Kampf”, and insisted that Hitler used such language “in a much different way”.

During a speech in New Hampshire on Saturday, Mr Trump said: “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country…. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done.”

Mr McConnell was on Tuesday questioned on whether he was “comfortable” with his party’s “leading presidential candidate referring to illegal immigrants as ‘poisoning the blood of our country’.”

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