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In the past, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) was a major source of frustration to Democrats. The former Senate majority leader, after the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, blocked then-President Barack Obama's nominee Merrick Garland -- only to ram through all three of President Donald Trump's nominees for the High Court: Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett. Yet McConnell, who stepped down as GOP leader in the U.S. Senate in 2024, is neither a MAGA Republican nor a Never Trumper. Although there is a lot of bad blood between McConnell and Trump and the Kentucky Republican would have much preferred another GOP presidential nominee in 2024, McConnell gave Trump a lukewarm, unenthusiastic endorsement after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the race.

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