Asked if he wanted McConnell removed as majority leader, Moore said, “We didn’t talk about that.”

“I’m not going to give you an opinion on that right now,” Moore said.

The relatively demure approach from Moore on Tuesday came in sharp contrast to his record in Alabama and rhetoric on the campaign trail, where the former judge — who has a history of incendiary and derogatory comments, including saying homosexuality should be outlawed and that Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, should be barred from serving because of his religion — railed against McConnell and the Republican establishment as ineffective.