Sen. Dick Durbin Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Trump previews SCOTUS nominee as 'totally brilliant' Feinstein 'surprised and taken aback' by suggestion she's not up for Supreme Court fight Grand jury charges no officers in Breonna Taylor death MORE (D-Ill.) called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power MORE (R-Ky.) President Trump’s “greatest enabler” and said he doubts the Republican has the “courage” to condemn Trump’s recent attack on progressive congresswomen of color.

CNN asked Durbin how Senate Democrats will respond to Trump’s tweets telling the congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from. In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Trump signs largely symbolic pre-existing conditions order amid lawsuit MORE (D-Calif.) has called for a vote on a resolution to condemn the remarks as racist.

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“Let me tell you, the rules in the Senate make it clear that one man will decide if we speak out on this matter of principle, and that man is Mitch McConnell,” Durbin responded.

“He has been President Trump’s greatest enabler,” Durbin added. “If you don’t like the division in Washington, D.C., if you don’t like what's happening to this country, how we pit ourselves one against the other, I'm afraid that Sen. McConnell has been the enabler of this president who has created in just two and a half years a division in America which was unthinkable before the last presidential election.”

Durbin calls Sen. Mitch McConnell President Trump’s “greatest enabler”: “I don’t think Sen. McConnell really has the will or the determination or even the political courage to step up even in this clear case to condemn the racism of the President’s remarks” pic.twitter.com/jBMdqNcwoz — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 16, 2019

“I don’t think Sen. McConnell has the will nor even the political courage to step up even in this clear case to condemn the racism of the president’s remarks,” Durbin told CNN.

The Hill reached out to McConnell’s office for comment.

McConnell has been quiet so far on the matter, declining to comment to reporters Monday. He said he would take questions Tuesday when he holds a weekly press conference.

Durbin’s remarks follow days of backlash against Trump’s tweets — and subsequent comments defending them — targeting freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).

The president told the congresswomen to "go back and fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

All four women are U.S. citizens, and all four are people of color. Only Omar, who came to the U.S. from Somalia as a refugee, was born outside the U.S.

Some Republicans spoke out against Trump’s tweets, calling them wrong. Few went so far as to deem them racist.