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By Phil McCausland & Anthony Zurcher BBC News, in New York and Washington 28 February 2024 To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: ‘It’s time to move on’ – McConnell announces he’ll step down Mitch McConnell, the US Senate’s longest-serving Republican leader, has announced he is . […]
By Phil McCausland BBC News, New York 7 hours ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Mitch McConnell announced on Wednesday that he intended to step down as Senate Republican leader in November Mitch McConnell announced on Wednesday that he intends to step down as the longest-serving Senate Republican leader following November’s general election.
The 82-year-old Kentucky lawmaker is the longest-serving Senate leader in history. United States Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has said he will step down from his leadership role, leaving a power vacuum atop the party he has piloted for nearly 17 years, more than any other party leader in the chamber’s history. “I turned 82 […]
Listen to this article here In a bewildering turn of events, U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell met yet another freeze during a press conference, sparking concerns about his health and ability to continue his political career. The incident unfolded during a media gathering where the 81-year-old senator from Kentucky was addressing various questions, most notably one […]
Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general and a close ally of Senator Mitch McConnell, clinched the state’s Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, fending off a spirited and costly challenge by Kelly Craft, a wealthy former ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Cameron’s double-digit victory sets up what is likely to […]
WASHINGTON — In March 2006, as the government veered dangerously close to a default, Senator Mitch McConnell, the No. 2 Republican, let the Bush White House know he was two votes short of what he needed to raise the legal limit on federal borrowing. Andrew H. Card Jr., then the White House chief of staff, […]
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