Longtime Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was reportedly among the four Republican senators to sink Gaetz’s bid to be confirmed as attorney general.
According to The New York Times‘ Jonathan Swan, “Matt Gaetz told people close to him
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that he concluded after there were at least four Republican senators who were implacably opposed to his nomination: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Curtis of Utah.”
https://www.mediaite.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-revealed-to-be-among-the-four-republicans-to-sink-gaetz-ag-nomination/