This is a big step…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly planning to attend a meeting with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump later this week.
McConnell told reporters for CNN and NBC News that he plans to attend the meeting despite his rocky relationship with the former President.
Trump had repeatedly called on GOP senators to oust McConnell as their leader. It will be the first time the two leaders will meet in person since 2020.
Trump and McConnell haven’t spoken to each other since December 2020, when they had a falling out over Trump’s plan to contest President Biden’s victory in that year’s election.
In March, McConnell endorsed Trump for the presidency.
“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 after Trump secured the nomination on Super Tuesday.
The Senate GOP leader also praised Trump after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
“These charges never should have been brought in the first place. I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal,” McConnell wrote in a post on X, criticizing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
