As House speaker Paul Ryan tries to weather a Trump imbroglio, his GOP counterpart, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, remains silent on the election.

The Kentucky Republican endorsed Trump after the candidate clinched the presidential nomination in May, and has occasionally commented on some of his highest-profile missteps: the Judge Alfonso Curiel and Capt. Khizr Kahn controversies, for example. But now that McConnell is home for the Senate recess—and the election has turned to Trump’s personal transgressions and his beef with the media and the electoral system—the typically calculating lawmaker has turned away questions about the race for the White House. From the Associated Press: