Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters he expects a “vigorous” Republican primary for the 2024 presidential race.
At the end of the GOP weekly agenda press conference on Feb. 14, McConnell asked to comment on Nikki Haley’s announcement that she would run for president. McConnell said he would support whomever the party selected as its candidate.
“Well, what I think is we’re going to have is a vigorous campaign,” McConnell said.
Considering the possible field, McConnell is likely correct.
Haley, the governor of South Carolina from 2010 to 2017, is only the second Republican to announce her candidacy. The other is her old boss, former President Donald Trump, who appointed Haley as U.N. Ambassador in 2017….