Seventeen Democratic presidential candidates joined gun control advocates at a rally in Iowa on Saturday and called for the Senate to vote on a pair of background check bills passed by the House earlier this year.
A week after 31 people died in mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the 2020 hopefuls slammed Republicans for inaction as massacres involving guns become increasingly common.
Earlier this week, McConnell said he doesn't see a point in calling the Senate back into session, despite numerous calls from Democrats to do so, and that he is on board with passing some sort of legislation in September that has bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress, as well as the backing of President Donald Trump.
“President Trump has spewed hate and division and racism and homophobia every moment on his presidency," Sen Kirsten Gillibrand of New York told the crowd. Some differences did emerge at the forum, including how candidates can best frame their message around gun control.
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