As former President Donald Trump is set to become the Republican presidential nominee for the third straight cycle, former foes are taking back comments and putting aside old rifts to support him this November.

Here are five Republicans putting aside old differences in order to back Trump in the general election.

Mitch McConnell

On Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. McConnell (R-KY) stood against his close ally, at the time saying Trump lied to his supporters.

“The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.”

In response, Trump said the Senate Republican leader had a “death wish” after compromising with Democrats. He also made racist remarks about McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump’s Secretary of Transportation.

“Does Coco Chow have anything to do with Joe Biden’s Classified Documents being sent and stored in Chinatown?” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Her husband, the Old Broken Crow, is VERY close to Biden, the Democrats, and, of course, China.”

Still, McConnell endorsed the former president.

“It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States,” McConnell said in a statement.

Brian Kemp

In 2020, the Republican governor clashed with Trump over the former president’s insistence that the election was rigged in Georgia.

“The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen,” Kemp said on X. “For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward — under oath — and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor.”

In response, Trump turned his back on a former ally. He recruited former Sen. David Perdue to challenge Kemp, unsuccessfully, in 2022.

“Before we can defeat the Democrats, socialists, and communists … we first have to defeat the [Republican in name only] sellouts and the losers in the primaries this spring,” Trump said, referring to Kemp, at a rally for Perdue in 2022.

In last week’s Georgia primary, Kemp said of Trump, “I think he’d be better than Joe Biden. It’s as simple as that.”

Ron DeSantis

Before dropping out of the presidential race, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was one of Trump’s harshest critics on the debate stage, regularly calling for the former president to debate fellow Republicans.

DeSantis said Trump motivated Democrats to head to the polls and vote against him, simply for who he is, not necessarily in favor of the Democratic Party.

“You could have John Kennedy walk through the door right now, and he wouldn’t energize Democrats as much as Donald Trump does,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis also pointed to Trump’s legal battles, saying, “Well, why is he raising that money, and where is that money going to? Isn’t it going to a lot of lawyers?”

Trump nicknamed the governor “Ron DeSanctimonious” for his “disloyalty” to the former president.

“You know, you can call me whatever you want,” DeSantis said. “I mean, just as long as you also call me a winner.”

DeSantis endorsed Trump when he announced the suspension of his own presidential campaign in January.

Chris Sununu

The Republican New Hampshire governor made his distaste for Trump public, endorsing Nikki Haley in the Republican primary. He tried to move his party toward a different path to win this November.

“He can’t win in November of ’24,” Sununu told CNN last June. “The math has shown Donald Trump has no chance of winning in November of ’24. He wouldn’t even win Georgia. If you’re a Republican that can’t win Georgia in November of ’24, you have no shot, and he’s proven that.”

Trump said Sununu was a “selfish, selfish guy” who “never helped him.”

“I’m going to support the ticket,” Sununu said last week. “I’m going to support Donald Trump.”

John Thune

The South Dakota senator and the No. 2 Republican in Senate leadership aired his concerns about Trump, calling his actions on Jan. 6 “inexcusable.” He also discussed his concerns about Trump being able to win in the general election, and how his name being on the ticket might affect down-ballot races.

“If we want to get the majority, we need a strong showing at the top of the ticket that translates into some down-ballot success,” Thune told CNN in January.

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Trump in turn has also called Thune a RINO and said his political career was over. He tried to recruit Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) to replace Thune, which she declined to do.

Thune is widely viewed as a potential successor to McConnell as the Senate Republican leader, and his endorsement of the former president in February further displayed the strong grip Trump has on the GOP.