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Mitch McConnell Endorses Donald Trump; Senate GOP Leader Had Blasted Former POTUS Over January 6th Attacks


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he was backing Donald Trump‘s presidential bid, even though he had blamed and blasted the former president for his “disgraceful” role in the January 6th attacks on the Capitol. Trump also has used racist remarks against McConnell’s wife, former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. Trump has called her […]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he was backing Donald Trump ‘s presidential bid, even though he had blamed and blasted the former president for his “disgraceful” role in the January 6th attacks on the Capitol. But McConnell has had a rift with Trump since 2020 when, as majority leader, the Kentucky senator said that Joe Biden had won the presidential election. Although McConnell has said little about Trump’s attacks on Chao, she issued a statement to Politico last year in which she said, “When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name.

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