US Presidential Election 2024: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell endorses Trump for president

The United States Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, on Wednesday (Mar 6) said he would support his party’s frontrunner Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.

This comes more than three years after the Senator for the US state of Kentucky blamed the former president for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

‘He will have my support’

“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,” said McConnell in a statement.

He added, “It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support.” The Senate minority leader also highlighted the “great things” he and Trump had accomplished during his presidency, including picking three conservative justices for the Supreme Court.

“I look forward to the opportunity of switching from playing defence against the terrible policies the Biden administration has pursued to a sustained offence geared towards making a real difference in improving the lives of the American people,” said McConnell.

The Senate minority leader’s endorsement reportedly came minutes after Nikki Haley, the last remaining rival for the Republican nomination against Trump, announced that she was ending her campaign.

Over the past few months, when asked if he would back Trump, McConnell had dodged the question saying that he would endorse the party’s eventual nominee.