Mitch McConnell Zeros In On Path To Win Back Senate Majority, Even If It Means Voting For Trump

Nothing can persuade Sen. Mitch McConnell to support a Democrat in the 2024 presidential race or to avert the looming debt ceiling crisis by breaking a partisan deadlock.

With all focus on the 2024 senate election, where 33 of the 100 seats will be contested, the Kentucky Republican will do whatever it takes to win back the majority, even if it means supporting former President Donald Trump, according to a report by CNN.

“I’m going to support the nominee of our party for president, no matter who that may be,” McConnell told the outlet on Friday. 

Despite McConnell and other Republicans blaming Trump for the party losing control of the Senate last year, by supporting less-popular far-right candidates in the primaries who probably wouldn't win in the general election, the former majority leader sees a path to a victory in the Senate with the former president’s name on the ticket.

In fact, McConnell believes that if Trump wins the GOP primaries, it could help flip seats in key battleground states. “Whether you are a Trump fan or a Trump opponent, I can’t imagine Trump if he’s the nominee not doing well in West Virginia, Montana and Ohio,” McConnell told the outlet during an interview.

West Virginia, a state that hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate since 1956, has swung heavily red over recent years. The state’s incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin is viewed as the most vulnerable Democrat up for re-election in 2024 after Trump came in 39 percentage points ahead of Biden in the 2020 presidential race.

McConnell stopped short of saying Trump is his preferred candidate, side-stepping a question on whether he’d even be comfortable with Trump as the nominee, according to the publication.

The Senate leader has taken a proverbial beating from the former president since the senator denounced Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and for trying to overturn the 2020 election result.

Trump has also taken aim at McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, hurling racist insults at the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, who resigned on Jan. 7, 2021, the day following the attack in Washington, D.C.

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