Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he would “absolutely” support Donald Trump if he is the 2024 GOP presidential candidate, two weeks after declaring former President Trump “virtually and morally responsible.” provoke the facts “of January 6th. The Kentucky Republican said he will support any Republican who wins the nomination, even if it is Mr. Trump.
“The party candidate? Absolutely?” McConnell told Fox News when asked if he would support Mr. Trump if he became the candidate.
McConnell said the field is “open” and that “at least four” Senate Republicans are looking at a bid.
Just two weeks ago, the summit The Senate Republican verbally erased Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 deadly assassination at the Capitol, after voting to acquit Trump of incitement to insurrection.
“Let me put it aside for a moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago: there is no doubt that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day,” McConnell said on the 13th. of February on the floor of the Senate. “The people who stormed this building believed that they were acting according to the wishes and instructions of its president. And the fact that they had this belief was a predictable consequence of the growing crescendo of false claims, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole in which the defeated president kept shouting the biggest megaphone on planet Earth. “
Trump also did not lag behind in what he thought of McConnell, saying it was a mistake to support the Kentucky Republican in his re-election candidacy and called him a “horrible, grumpy, unsmiling political pirate.” .
“My only regret is that McConnell” begged “my strong support and support from the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election and I gave it to him.” said the former president in a statement. “He went from one point to 20 points up and won. How quickly he forgets. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost and lost badly.”
Trump will have to speak Sunday at the Conservative CPAC conference, which will be his first major speech since he left office on Jan. 20.