McConnell says Trump is 'highly unlikely to ever be elected president' amid furor over dinner with Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes

• McConnell on Tuesday blasted former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago dinner with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West.
• "There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy," McConnell said.
• Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign earlier this month.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blasted former President Donald Trump's dinner with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, stating that anyone meeting with such an individual is "highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States."

While speaking on Capitol Hill, the Kentucky Republican, who has not communicated with Trump in nearly two years, went after his onetime political ally after it was revealed that the former president dined with Fuentes and Kanye West, the artist now known as Ye, at his Mar-a-Lago club in South Florida last week.

"There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy and anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, is highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States," he said at the beginning of his weekly press conference.

McConnell's comments come a day after a range of GOP leaders condemned the dinner, including his onetime No. 2, former Vice President Mike Pence.

"President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table. And I think he should apologize for it," Pence said during a Monday interview on News Nation.

Trump earlier this month launched his 2024 White House campaign at Mar-a-Lago, and rivals for the GOP nomination are expected to begin entering the race next year.