In a surprising turn of events, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has officially endorsed former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election. This endorsement comes after years of tension and disagreements between the two Republican leaders, with McConnell famously calling Trump's actions surrounding the Capitol riot "a disgraceful dereliction of duty." However, McConnell now believes that Trump is the best candidate to lead the party in the upcoming election.
This administration has done more to defend reproductive freedom and expand abortion access than any other in history—from establishing the Reproductive Rights Task Force to championing the restoration of the federal right to abortion to putting Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court, and so much more.
A second Trump presidency would give Donald Trump another opportunity to do untold damage to our fundamental rights. Anti-abortion groups—who teamed up with Trump during his last administration to overturn Roe and decimate reproductive freedom—have partnered with other conservatives to create a lengthy agenda that he could begin launching on Day One of his administration. Those plans offer Trump a laundry list of options to attack abortion rights and access, including reviving the so-called domestic gag rule, deploying the Federal Trade Commission to penalize and prosecute virtual clinics that prescribe abortion pills to people in states with bans, attempting to wilfully misinterpret and misuse the antiquated Comstock Act to block access to both abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortion care, and rescinding all of the policies the Biden-Harris administration enacted that expanded abortion access.
McConnell’s support came after lengthy discussions for months between Chris LaCivita from the Trump campaign and longtime McConnell confidant Josh Holmes about opening communications between the two camps and - maybe most importantly - getting on the same page about the US Senate races this year, according to a source familiar.
McConnell, who hasn’t spoken to Trump since December 2020, didn’t speak to him before he issued his endorsement, according to another source familiar with the matter. The source said that LaCivita and Holmes spoke instead.
In February 2021, a month after the Capitol attack, McConnell told Fox News that he “absolutely” would get behind Trump if he became the Republican nominee in 2024.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the only other member of Senate GOP leadership who had not endorsed Trump, added her own endorsement on X not long after McConnell released his statement. "We must beat Joe Biden and get this country back on track. Donald Trump has my support," she wrote.
Members of the Senate GOP conference had cited McConnell’s lack of a relationship with Trump as a reason they thought it made sense for him to step down as leader at the end of the year.
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