Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said on Sunday that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump being their parties’ presumptive nominees shows that the country is in “a sorry state of affairs” ahead of the November election. 

Cassidy, who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and has refused to endorse his bid to return to the White House, made the comments after being asked on NBC’s Meet the Press about the former president recently claiming that illegal immigrants aren’t people. 

“The president’s rhetoric has reflected poorly … regarding folks who are coming here illegally, and they shouldn’t be, but in a dehumanizing fashion,” the Louisiana senator began. “And that’s why, again, many people continue to have reservations.”

“The best thing going for Donald Trump running for president is that he’s running against Joe Biden, about whom many people also have reservations,” he continued. “And frankly, that’s why people are considering third parties. So it’s a sorry state of affairs.”

Trump said at his campaign rally for GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno on Saturday that some undocumented immigrants are “not people.”

“I don’t know if you call them people,” Trump said. “In some cases, they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical Left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”

Asked if he planned to challenge Trump and Biden for the presidency on an independent or No Labels ticket, Cassidy said that wasn’t in the cards.

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“I’m not,” Cassidy said in response to a question about No Labels, the centrist group working to get on the presidential ballot in a dozen states.

“I was never seriously considered to be their candidate,” he explained. “It was reported in the press otherwise, but I was never seriously considered. So that, kind of, obviously, the answer is not.”