Posted on 02/20/2025 9:20:11 AM PST by Morgana
Sen. Mitch McConnell, 83, announced on Thursday that he will not be seeking reelection to the Senate.
'Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate,' McConnell said on the Senate floor.
'Every day in between I've been humbled by the trust they've placed in me to do their business right here,' he said.
Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last,' he continued.
McConnell, the longest-serving GOP Senate leader, first entered the Senate in 1985, but he has been battling a string of health issues and multiple falls in recent years.
He also has earned the ire of Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters after a years-long feud.
McConnell voted against three of Trump's top Cabinet picks in recent weeks: Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy Jr.
He was the only Republican to vote against the confirmation of Gabbard and RFK Jr., spurring MAGA loyalists to call for his resignation.
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Good riddance
He’s fully vaccinated and swears by the COVID shots that’s for sure.
He knows Doge will out all the graft he’s accumulated over the years
It was him or some random scumbag democrat, but I repeat myself. If he leaves early then Adolf Andy Beshear gets to put a dem in until the election.
Kentucky is a pretty State.
He should go back there.
As retired Senator.
Sooner the better.
Unfortunately I believe his term is up in 28 this gives him leeway to continue to obstruct anything that Trump wants done. Between Collins, the cow from Alaska and this POS along with maybe two more renegades against Trump we’re gonna have our hands full. Remember a cornered Rabid animal is more dangerous when cornered. This is reason why term limits are extremely crucial. How I wish our founding fathers would’ve added term limits to the constitution. What a mistake. There is no way these bastards would vote against themselves and make term limits permanently. They get elected to office with the promise of invoking term limits only to yak it up and retire at 80+ with a hefty multi million bank account! UGH!
Nice to see him go, but this is almost as annoying as Chris Dodd depriving us all of the opportunity to see him lose an election.
Yup
He’ll be Uniparty PITA until death. McCain II
He’s assuming he’ll make it to the end of his seventh - the man is NOT in good health.
He’s assuming he’ll make it to the end of his seventh - the man is NOT in good health.
Resign now. You need to be prosecuted for the fraud which you have perpetrated.
Musk’s fault.
FINALLY!
Maybe he will be in jail by then.
McConnell?
None of us know when our expiration date is.
Don’t look like he’s running ANYWHERE
No doubt. He pron=bably won’t be alive till then anyway...
Again?
I thought he’d already announced this, previously.
What he needs to announce is that he’s retiring, yesterday.
It’s not like we’ve needed his NO votes.
Resignation would be better.
NO! Kentucky has a Dem Governor
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