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On the vaccination front, with herd immunity against COVID-19 now looking harder to reach, McConnell reiterated his support for the vaccines — while stopping short of calling out fellow Republicans for fueling skepticism about the shots.
Acknowledging the slowdown in vaccination rates and the increasingly complicated task of convincing opponents to agree to the shot, McConnell had a football analogy.
"This last 20 yards, it looks to me, are going to be kind of difficult," he said.
Difficult, in part because a recent Gallup poll found a quarter of Americans still check the "no" box on the vaccine. Asked whether he lays any blame at the feet of fellow GOP lawmakers who have sown mistrust about the vaccines, McConnell stuck to his own message.