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Former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell says he won't run for reelection in 2026, announcing his impending departure from the Senate on Thursday, his 83rd birthday. Mr. McConnell said on the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he expects former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to vote with Senate Republicans on the “big stuff ahead of us,” after McConnell voted ...

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell made an interesting announcement on his 83rd birthday Thursday. The long-serving Kentucky legislator stated he would not seek reelection. McConnell noted that he was ...

It's the end of an era in Kentucky politics.Thursday, U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell announced he will not be seeking re-election, ending a decades-long tenure.First elected in 1984, McConnell holds ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Thursday that he is not seeking reelection in 2026, bringing an end to the longest-serving Senate leader’s political career. McConnell, one of the leading ...

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said he won’t run for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open Kentucky Senate seat in 2026 after the former Senate Republican leader announced he would not seek another term.

The longtime Republican senator turned 83 on Thursday. Longtime Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday he will not seek reelection next year. McConnell, who turned 83 today ...

THE VOTE WAS 52 TO 48. FORMER SENATE GOP LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL WAS T Once again, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell was the only Republican not to go the way of his party, voting no on another Trump pick.

Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he would be leaving the Senate at the end of his term, with one commentator saying he has "done so much destruction" to the Republican Party. At 83 years old ...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will not run for reelection in 2026, he announced in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday morning. The announcement marks a major moment in ...

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.