WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is announcing on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decades-long tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump.
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McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, chose his 83rd birthday to share his decision not to run for another term in Kentucky and to retire when his current term ends. He informed The Associated Press of his decision before he was set to address colleagues in a speech on the Senate floor.
His announcement begins the epilogue of a storied career as a master strategist, one in which he helped forge a conservative Supreme Court and steered the Senate through tax cuts, presidential impeachment trials and fierce political fights.
He kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court. Nisht kosh.
Term limits for all members of Congress, Senate and Congress, must be mandated. We have these sleazy politicians staying in power until their dying day.
With all due respect, he won’t be missed very much
He may have a new job of appearing on KFC chicken tubs.
He should resign now, and not wait another two years!
about time for him to share a nursing home room with biden