McConnell to Trump: Don’t Try to Hijack the Republican Platform

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McConnell to Trump: Don’t Try to Hijack the Republican Platform

By Thomas McKinless

Posted June 10, 2016 at 6:11pm

By Thomas McKinless and Niels Lesniewski

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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vows and warns that he better not try to . “I told Donald Trump I thought we ought not to have a fight over the platform, that he wasn’t going to change what we think Republicans are,” .

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