Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas, according to a law enforcement report released Wednesday. The investigation by the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Chao’s death was an “unfortunate accident” and her blood […]
The past four decades have seen House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s parallel rise in their respective parties’ leadership on each side of the Capitol. So when Pelosi was asked during a Friday interview with MSNBC to comment on McConnell’s recent endorsement of former President Donald Trump, she reflected on […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-dominated Kentucky House voted Monday to remove any role for the state’s Democratic governor in deciding who would occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The legislation calls for a special election to fill any Senate vacancy […]
Mitch McConnell is stepping down, and Republican senators have months to decide who succeeds him. The end of his reign marks a shift in the GOP, but Trump won’t get to fully decide the next leader. Trump forcefully backed Jim Jordan‘s House speaker bid in October. It crashed and burned anyway. Senate Minority Leader Mitch […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Mitch McConnell‘s decision to step down as Senate Republican leader in November is reverberating back home in Kentucky, setting off a wave of speculation about the future of his seat as well as the loss of influence for the Bluegrass State. McConnell was cagey enough in his announcement to leave room […]
When Mitch McConnell stepped out of his Senate office in the Capitol at 12:30 on Wednesday to announce that he would conclude his tenure as the longest-serving Senate leader in American history at the end of this Congress, I asked him why now. McConnell grinned, said, “I’m going to cover that,” and then walked into […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before Sen. Mitch McConnell surprised colleagues Wednesday announcing he would step down as the Republican leader this fall, he knew the time had come. Hard-right Republican senators aligned with Donald Trump wanted to oust him. Trump was easily becoming the party’s frontrunner for a do-over election with President Joe Biden. And, […]
Mitch McConnell just announced he’s stepping down, and some Republicans are already cheering. That’s despite the longtime GOP leader’s record of securing wins for conservatives. “Better days are ahead for the Republican Party,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Mitch McConnell may be a longtime Democratic boogeyman, but it’s mostly fellow Republicans trashing the Senate […]
Mitch McConnell, the highest ranking Senate Republican and the longest serving Senate leader in U.S. history, announced Wednesday that he would step down from his position at the end of November. “One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter. So I stand before you […]
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell haven’t said a word to each other since December 2020. But people close to both men are working behind the scenes to make bygones of the enmity between them and to pave the way for a critical endorsement of the former president by the one Republican congressional leader who has […]
WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell is widely known to be a cunning, Machiavellian tactician who maximizes his party’s power in the Senate to accomplish hugely consequential conservative victories, including a right-wing Supreme Court majority that may last for decades. But the recent drama in Congress’ upper chamber exposed what has been evident behind the scenes for […]
WASHINGTON — Within 48 hours of the release of a long-awaited immigration and foreign aid bill he had championed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Republican conference rejected his pitch to support it, knifed the deal and left it for dead. Just four Republicans voted for it. In the end, even McConnell backtracked and voted against […]