President-elect Joe Biden's former campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon, who is slated to become Deputy Chief of Staff upon his inauguration, expressed remorse on Thursday for referring to Republicans as "a bunch of f-ckers," Politico reports.
"I used some words that I probably could have chosen better," O'Malley Dillon said of her comments in a recent interview with Glamour Magazine. Her walk-back was made in a virtual call with Democratic Party officials Stephanie Cutter and Teddy Goff.
In her interview with Glamour, O'Malley Dillon made her derogatory comment while talking about Biden's commitment to bipartisanship.
"In the primary, people would mock him, like, 'You think you can work with Republicans?'" O’Malley Dillon said.
"I'm not saying they're not a bunch of f-ckers. Mitch McConnell is terrible. But this sense that you couldn't wish for that, you couldn't wish for this bipartisan ideal? He rejected that."
Many conservatives heavily criticized her remarks, suggesting that such language undermined the credibility of the Biden camp's appeals to national unity. Democrats, too, found her remarks less than charitable, specifically big donors to the Biden campaign.
The former campaign manager reaffirmed Biden's self-proclaimed support for bipartisanship in her call with the Democratic officials, reiterating Biden's "belief that we can get things done, and we can get them done if we come together."
She suggested that in her Tuesday interview, she was trying to make "an incredibly important point. And that really is about the president-elect and why he was supported by over 81 million people, and what they were looking for."
While Biden has repeatedly flaunted his credentials as an old-school politician committed to bipartisan negotiations, he has been largely vague on how he will bring about national unity in these polarizing times.
Despite her condemnation of McConnell, his role as Senate Majority Leader remains contested as two run-off elections in Georgia are set to decide control of the Senate in January.
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