Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) told FNC’s Bret Baier on Thursday that he would absolutely support former President Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2024.
McConnell said, “Well, there is a lot to happen between now and twenty-four. I’ve got at least four members that I think are planning on running for president, plus some governors and others. There is no incumbent. Should be a wide-open raise and fun for you all to cover.”
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McConnell and other Republicans, including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming have suggested that it was time for the party to move on and find new leaders despite polls showing that most Republicans remain attached to Trump.
Yet the party is also keen to cast aside the notion that it’s engulfed in a civil war as it confronts the new Biden administration and prepares for the 2022 elections.
“The Republican party is actually in very good shape,” McConnell said in the Fox interview. “We gained seats in the House, we elected 50 Republican senators when everybody was predicting we were going to lose the Senate. The Democrats didn’t flip a single state legislature, we flipped two, picked up a governor.”
McConnell dismissed reports of party discord and said President Joe Biden “has made it quite easy for us to get together.”
On Feb. 13, McConnell voted to acquit Trump on charges of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, but just minutes later condemned him in the floor speech. “The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things,” he said.
Trump fired back days later with a sarcastic response, mocking McConnell as “a dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack” and warned senators who remained loyal to their leader “will not win again.”
McConnell is not attending this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, in which Trump will be the star attraction.
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