Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, often at odds with former President Donald Trump, endorsed him Wednesday for president.

Trump sewed up the Republican nomination the day before with multiple victories in Super Tuesday primaries.

Trump’s remaining GOP challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, announced Wednesday morning that she was leaving the race.

Shortly after, multiple news outlets reported that McConnell was endorsing Trump. The Kentuckian had long said he would support the Republican nominee.

McConnell issued the following statement: “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. It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support. During his Presidency, we worked together to accomplish great things for the American people including tax reform that supercharged our economy and a generational change of our federal judiciary — most importantly, the Supreme Court. I look forward to the opportunity of switching from playing defense against the terrible policies the Biden administration has pursued to a sustained offense geared towards making a real difference in improving the lives of the American people.”

Last week McConnell, the Senate’s longest serving party leader ever, ?announced that he would not seek another term as Republican leader, acknowledging that “the politics within my party at this particular moment in time” did not favor him continuing as leader. Trump had recently said he didn’t know if he could work with McConnell.

McConnell has said he intends to continue representing Kentucky in the U.S. Senate. His term runs through January 2027.

Senate Republicans will choose a successor to McConnell in November.

Kentucky Republicans line up behind Trump

On Tuesday, Kentucky Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman shared on X, formerly Twitter, that he and other GOP constitutional officers — Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell, Treasurer Mark Metcalf and Auditor Allison Ball — endorsed Trump. The missing statewide elected Republican was Secretary of State Michael Adams.

“Kentucky can’t afford four more years of President Biden,” Coleman said. “To secure our borders and protect our families, we are united in endorsing President Trump.”

Trump previously appointed Coleman as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Coleman has also served as McConnell’s legal counsel.

Adams was an attorney for Haley’s campaign. His spokesperson, Michon Lindstrom, said an in Wednesday email to the Kentucky Lantern that Adams was “proud of how Nikki Haley conducted her campaign from start to finish.”

“Secretary Adams is a Republican, and votes Republican, but as the chief election official his focus is on helping people to vote rather than telling them whom to vote for,” Lindstrom said.

Adams was asked by Trump and McConnell to serve as co-chairs to their campaigns in 2020, but declined both for similar reasons, she added. Later that year, Adams worked toward several election process changes during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about his objectivity could have been raised if he had accepted.

Kentucky’s top Democrat, Gov. Andy Beshear, endorsed President Joe Biden ahead of his own reelection in October.

Trump won Kentucky’s electoral votes in 2016 and 2020.