WASHINGTON (AP) Senate leader Mitch McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Donald Trumps bid to return to the White House having once called the defeated president morally responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack.

But thats potentially about to change.

McConnells political team and Trumps campaign have been in talks over not only a possible endorsement of the former president but a strategy to unite Republicans up and down the partys ticket ahead of the November election , according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it.

How, when or where McConnell would endorse Trump is less head-spinning than the idea that it could happen at all: A stunning rapprochement for two men who have not spoken since McConnell enraged Trump by declaring Joe Biden the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election.