Mitch McConnell showered with boos at the national convention

MILWAUKEE — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not winning any popularity contests at the Republican National Convention.

Mr. McConnell was showered with boos during the roll-call vote here, when he rose to his feet to announce Kentucky’s nomination of Mr. Trump.

The Kentucky Republican has had a rocky relationship with Mr. Trump since 2016 despite being a lion of the Senate and the chief architect behind Mr. Trump’s remaking of the Supreme Court into a conservative bastion.

Mr. McConnell broke with Mr. Trump over the results of the 2020 election when he voted to certify President Biden’s victory. The longtime Republican Senate leader said Mr. Trump was “morally responsible” for the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.

Since he left office, Mr. Trump has regularly taunted Mr. McConnell on social media as an incompetent and made racist jibes about his ethnic-Chinese wife Elaine Chao, despite Mr. Trump having picked her as his transportation secretary.

Nevertheless, Mr. McConnell endorsed Mr. Trump for president earlier this year, albeit only after it became clear he would be the party’s standard bearer.

“It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States,” Mr. McConnell said in the statement.

“It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support,” he said.

The delegates to the national convention signaled Monday that they too still hold a grudge against Mr. McConnell.