Mitch McConnell has announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for president.
He took his time, but ultimately Senator Mitch McConnell has fallen in line and endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2024.
The Senate minority leader and longtime leader of the Senate Republican caucus said in a statement to The Washington Post Wednesday that “It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States.”
McConnell announced his decision just minutes after Trump’s lone remaining challenger, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, dropped out of the race after only winning one of Super Tuesday’s 16 state contests. McConnell himself announced last week that he will step down as GOP leader in November.
So reading the posted article but not whatever McConnell’s handlers wrote for him in WaPo, this
is not an endorsement, it’s a statement of facts. The primary voters in the states that matter (you know, all the ones up to Super Tuesday) decided they wanted Trump for their nominee. That doesn’t mean McConnell is happy about it (and if he is, maybe the New Republic article should have quoted that instead?)
I’m disgusted at my fellow Americans with this news and ashamed that so many would choose authoritarianism.