Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that he would “absolutely” support Donald Trump if he were the Republican Party’s 2024 candidate for president, two weeks after declaring former President Trump “practically and morally responsible for provoke the events “of 6 January. The Kentucky Republican said he will support any Republican who wins the nomination, even if it is Mr. Trump.
“The party nominee? Certainly,” McConnell told Fox News when asked if he would support Trump if he became the nominee.
McConnell said the camp is “fully open” and “at least four” Senate Republicans are eyeing an offer.
Just two weeks ago, the top Verbally spiked Republican Senate Mr. Trump for his role in the January 6 deadly attack on the Capitol, after voting to absolve Mr. Trump of inciting the insurrection.
“Let me put that aside for a moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago: there is no doubt that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for causing the events of that day,” McConnell said on February 13 in the Senate floor. . “The people who broke into this building believed they were acting in accordance with their president’s wishes and instructions. And that belief was a predictable consequence of the surge in false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole that the defeated president shouted the biggest megaphone in the world. planet Earth. “
Trump also could not contain himself in what he thought about McConnell, saying it was a mistake to support the Kentucky Republican in his candidacy for re-election and calling him a “severe, taciturn and serious political hack”.
“My only regret is that McConnell ‘begged’ for my strong support and endorsement towards the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 elections, and I gave it to him,” the former president said in a statement. “He dropped from one point to 20 points above and won. How fast he forgets. Without my support, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly.”
Mr. Trump is due to speak on Sunday at the conservative CPAC conference, which will be his first major speech since leaving office on January 20.