The announced retirement of Senator Mitch McConnell, the erstwhile longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history and one of the most consequential lawmakers of his era, was not unexpected.

When Mitch McConnell ... would have the same desk that 19th-century statesman Henry Clay once used. That remote wooden link between the two Kentuckians is as close as McConnell will ever come ...

We laughed. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a gruff charm. That was his way of poking fun at me when I saw him around town. For a long time, I wanted to quickly snap back by thanking him for ...

After nearly four decades in the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) long tenure is finally coming to an end. Some have hailed him as a master strategist, a guardian of conservative ...

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Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters/Saul Loeb/Al Drago - Pool via CNP/Zuma Press If you want to hear many Republican lawmakers’ inner monologue these days, listen to Mitch McConnell. On Monday the ...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has said he will not run for reelection in 2026, opening up a U.S. Senate seat he's held since 1984. Former Attorney General Daniel Cameron has announced he's running.

“I’m avoiding getting too high on the good days and too low on the bad days,” Mitch McConnell was telling me. “Is today a good day or a bad day?” I asked him. “Yeah,” was all ...

Daniel Cameron once said there was no political daylight between him and Sen. Mitch McConnell. Now, Kentucky’s former attorney general is keeping his distance as he vies to win his longtime ...

We’re Going to Miss Mitch Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced last Thursday that he would be retiring from the U.S. Senate after seven terms in office. The decision was ...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was one of three Senate Republicans to vote Monday against former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), President Trump’s nominee to head the ...

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 ...