Even before Sen. Mitch McConnell announced his decision not to seek reelection Thursday, a field of potential replacements started to take shape. The likely Republican candidates have been trading ...

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U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving sitting senator, has announced he will leave Congress at the end of his term. What to know.

Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is running to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader who is not ...

McConnell announced Thursday he would not run in 2026. Here’s where his political career began more than 50 years ago.

It’s the sort of thing that would seem a bit much from most politicians, but I believe McConnell has loved being a senator.

Longtime Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection next year, he announced Thursday, ending a decades-long run as one of the most powerful Republicans in the country. McConnell, first ...

McConnell, the longest-serving member of Congress from Kentucky and the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, first took office in 1984.

Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President ...

WASHINGTON—In 2017, when President Trump was fresh in his first term, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked by a student on a class trip what he thought of the new commander in ...