Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, warned on night 4 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) that the Democratic Party would restrict the rights of Americans if its candidates gain control of Congress and the presidency in November.

“Today’s Democrat Party doesn’t want to improve life for middle America,” he said in a brief address. “They want to tell you when you can go to work, when your kid can go to school, they want to tax your job out of existence and then they want to send you a check for unemployment.”

McConnell, whose comments were much shorter than those of many other speakers, said he was proud that Republican senators have acted as a “firewall” against House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi’s agenda.

McConnell has been a strong ally of Trump since he assumed office. He helped to secure the confirmations of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. McConnell has also championed key Trump policies, such as rolling back federal regulations and passing a massive tax cut signed by the president in December 2017.

McConnell faces a tougher-than-expected re-election campaign in his home state of Kentucky against Democratic challenger Amy McGrath. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found earlier this month that McConnell was leading McGrath by 5 percentage points.

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