{"id":1541026,"date":"2024-03-07T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=05a0495b1f2d2b92ffa9faedd651fd24"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:40:16","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-will-be-remembered-for-throwing-trump-a-political-life-raft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/07\/mitch-mcconnell-will-be-remembered-for-throwing-trump-a-political-life-raft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Will Be Remembered for Throwing Trump a Political Life Raft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of on-again-off-again feuding with former President Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Trump on Wednesday as the Republican nominee following the former president&rsquo;s easy victories in the Super Tuesday caucuses and primaries. It is the latest example of McConnell&rsquo;s extraordinary, finely tuned ability to put political expediency over principle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/mitch-mcconnell-will-be-remembered-for-throwing-trump-a-political-life-raft\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/mitch-mcconnell-will-be-remembered-for-throwing-trump-a-political-life-raft\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell formally endorses Trump and after 40 years in power, departs a Senate GOP in thrall to the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39029,49,50,4402,19758,1753,4711,1265],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541027,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541026\/revisions\/1541027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}