Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell kept a low profile in the weeks ahead of the presidential election, a move that may have been intentional because he did not think President-elect Trump was going to win.
The senior Kentucky senator admitted six weeks after the election that he thought Republicans would be forced to give up their majority in the Senate and doubted that the billionaire businessman would be able to beat out Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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