Three years after delivering a scorching denouncement of Donald J. Trump after the Jan. 6 riot, Senator Mitch McConnell endorsed him for president on Wednesday, illustrating Mr. Trump's power to bend the Republican Party to his will as he marches to the G.O.P. nomination.
But people close to both men had been working behind the scenes for weeks to pave the way for the endorsement. The Kentucky Republican had been the highest-ranking member of the party to withhold an endorsement for Mr. Trump.
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