Washington (CNN) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell apologize to Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, following remarks McConnell made that said an "evil smear campaign" was targeting President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

"Leader McConnell owes an apology to Dr. Ford for labeling her allegations a 'smear job.' Let me repeat that, Leader McConnell owes an apology to Dr. Ford for labeling her allegations a 'smear job' and he should apologize to her immediately," Schumer, D-New York, said on the Senate floor. "It is galling -- galling for the Republican leader who has done more than maybe anyone else to politicize the Supreme Court nomination process, to make these trumped up, hyperbolic charges."

Schumer's remarks come one day after McConnell, R-Kentucky, spoke on the Senate floor to criticize Democrats, who he said "wouldn't let a few inconvenient things -- like a complete lack of evidence, or an accuser's request for confidentiality -- get between them and a good smear."

"Democrats have signaled for months they'd put on whatever performance the far left special interests demanded and throw all the mud, all the mud they could manufacture," McConnell said Monday . "Even by the far left's standards, this evil, evil smear campaign has hit a new low."

When asked by CNN about Schumer's request for an apology, McConnell's spokesman David Popp told CNN, "Apparently Sen. Schumer didn't listen to the leader's speech. The smear he referred to was done by the Democrats."

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