By BURGESS EVERETT | Politico
Mitch McConnell is endorsing Donald Trump for president, a move that the Senate GOP leadermadeafter Trump’s only main rival dropped out of the GOP primary.
Despite their nonexistent relationships over the past three years, McConnell has always maintained he would support the eventual Republican nominee — and Nikki Haley’s Wednesday suspension of her campaign unlocked McConnell’s formal endorsement. His decision to formally back Trump amounts to a detente, however involuntary, after a rocky three years between the two men.
It also illustrates that the two men may still need each other politically: McConnell is trying to take back the Senate majority for Republicans at the end of the year, while Trump is trying to win many of the same battleground states that are contested in the battle for the chamber.