The two men have not spoken since 2020 when McConnell declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner of that year’s presidential election.
“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 said in the statement.
McConnell said, “It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support.”.
Trump now counts the GOP leaders in Congress, including Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republicans vying to replace McConnell as leader, as backing his bid for the White House.
McConnell, of Kentucky, said he and Trump “worked together to accomplish great things for the American people.”.
After the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol, McConnell issued a grave rebuke of Trump’s behavior, blaming the defeated president for spreading “wild” claims of a stolen election.
“He didn’t get away with anything yet — yet,” McConnell said in the Senate at the time. »