WASHINGTON — In the opening months of Joe Biden’s presidency, Mitch McConnell was content to sit idle and take measure of Democratic Party unity.
“The old Joe will only come back when he has to and that will depend upon whether or not he can succeed in running the table with Democrats only. If he can’t, then we’ll be back in the game,” McConnell said, according to “Peril,” a book charting the end of Donald Trump’s presidency through the early months of Biden’s first year.
McConnell’s thought process was to engage only when Biden failed to hold Democrats together, handing the minority leader maximum leverage.
