http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mcconnell-promises-to-back-trump/article/2590419By Susan Ferrechio • 5/4/16 8:22 PM
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, issued a tepid endorsement of Donald Trump Wednesday, a day after the real estate mogul became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
"I have committed to supporting the nominee chosen by Republican voters, and Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, is now on the verge of clinching that nomination," McConnell said in a statement Wednesday evening. "Republicans are committed to preventing what would be a third term of Barack Obama and restoring economic and national security after eight years of a Democrat in the White House. As the presumptive nominee, he now has the opportunity and the obligation to unite our party around our goals."
McConnell has been privately critical of Trump and has publicly denounced some of Trump's proposals, including one that would ban new Muslim entrants into the United States. McConnell also privately told GOP senators they'd drop Trump like "a hot rock" in order to protect vulnerable Senate seats that might be jeopardized by Trump at the top of the ticket.
