Leading Republican, who blamed Trump for January 6, says he will support likely nominee despite ex-president\u2019s personal taunts<\/p>\n
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, on Wednesday endorsed Donald Trump for president despite years of acrimony between the pair including Trump calling McConnell a \u201cpiece of shit<\/a>\u201d and using racist invective<\/a> in attacks against his wife.<\/p>\n \u201cIt 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,\u201d McConnell, 82, said in a statement to the Washington Post<\/a>, the morning after Trump dominated the Super Tuesday primaries and as Trump\u2019s last rival, Nikki Haley, dropped out.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leading Republican, who blamed Trump for January 6, says he will support likely nominee despite ex-president\u2019s personal taunts Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, on Wednesday endorsed Donald Trump for president despite years of acrimony between the pair including Trump calling McConnell a \u201cpiece of shit\u201d and using racist invective in attacks … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}