Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday expressed his support for GOP Sen. Mike Rounds (S.D.), who earlier this week was attacked by former President Trump after saying the 2020 presidential election was fair.
“I think Sen. Rounds told the truth about what happened in the 2020 election,” McConnell told CNN. “And I agree with him.”
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“As a Republican Party, our focus should be on what lies ahead, not what’s in the past. Elections are about growing support for your party, not further dividing it,” he said.
Other Republicans have come to Rounds’s defense, including Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who said Rounds spoke the “truth knowing that our Republic depends upon it.” Other Republican lawmakers similarly echoed what Rounds said and argued that it was time for the party to move on.
“I don’t think re-litigating or rehashing the past is a winning strategy,” fellow South Dakota Sen. John Thune (R) said. “If we want to be a majority in 2023, we’ve got to get out and articulate what we’re going to do with respect to the future the American people are going to live and the things they’re going to care about when it comes to economic issues, national security issues.”
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McConnell backs Rounds in spat with Trump: Rounds "told the truth" about 2020 election https://t.co/enLTX81wFX pic.twitter.com/g1hmCqDq8Z
— The Hill (@thehill) January 12, 2022
It's crazy that after 14 months and many audits it's still news for any prominent Republican to publicly state that Trump lost the election. https://t.co/HskoVu6I2f
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 12, 2022
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