Mitch McConnell’s legacy in Senate sits in the nation’s courts
Mitch McConnell will end his Senate career with his most indelible mark on the federal courts and the judicial confirmation process.
Mitch McConnell made our country worse
Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...
To Win McConnell’s Senate Seat, Kentucky Hopefuls Run Away From Mitch
As the contest turns nasty, onetime allies of Senate Republicans’ former leader are now seeking President Trump’s endorsement ...
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Mitch McConnell’s Senate Reign Ends With a Whimper
“‘Mitch McConnellism’ as a political philosophy is dead,” Matt Jones, a Louisville sportscaster who considered a Senate run against McConnell in 2020, told me. Needless to say, it was a ...
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Sen. Mitch McConnell won't seek reelection in 2026, ending long tenure as Republican power broker
Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he won't ... Later, when liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died weeks before the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden, McConnell rushed ...
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Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s cynical and hollow man
When Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the US Senate ... Yet when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, 2020 — seven months closer to a presidential election than Scalia’s death had been ...
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Mitch McConnell will leave a GOP he helped build, but no longer recognizes | Opinion
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday, the day he turned 83, that this would be his final term in office and he would not seek reelection in 2026. The Republican ...
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The Two Warring Legacies of Mitch McConnell
The announced retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell ... According to biographer Michael Tackett, McConnell said after the 2020 election that Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered ...
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Letters to the Editor: Now Mitch McConnell wants to rein in Trump? Too little, too late
Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky ... and four years later confirming Amy Coney Barrett mere days before the 2020 election, McConnell showed his true face. “Party over country” sums up his style.
Politico26d
Why Daniel Cameron torched Mitch McConnell to win his seat
Mitch McConnell and is unequivocally on Team Trump. And he did so by torching the longtime Senate leader by name for casting “no” votes on the president’s Cabinet picks to lead the Pentagon ...
THE WEEK26d
McConnell: Standing up to Trump — too late
Mitch McConnell is speaking his mind," said Lisa ... insurrection and the 2020 election results, fully supports Ukraine, and opposes Trump's tariffs as a tax on Americans. A furious Trump called ...
Mitch McConnell Won’t Seek Re-Election in 2026, Ending Tenure as Republican Power Broker
McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, chose his 83rd birthday to share his decision.