McConnell's strategy for 2024 Senate race: Back all Republican candidates.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is working behind the scenes to find his preferred candidates in key races for the 2024 Senate elections, in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the 2022 Republican collapse at the polls. McConnell's main focus is on flipping four states: Montana, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He believes a potential Trump nomination could bolster Republican chances in three key Senate battlegrounds. McConnell is making clear that his outside group, the Senate Leadership Fund, along with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, are prepared to take a much heavier hand in contested Republican primaries than the past cycle, a move that could escalate their intraparty feuding but one the GOP leader sees as essential to avoiding the pitfalls from 2022.