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BREAKING NEWS Mitch McConnell announces he won't run for reelection
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 20, 2025 | Sarah Ewall-Wice

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: mcconnell; mcconnellretirement; mitch; senate
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To: 3RIVRS

No. Resignation wouldn’t be better.


61 posted on 02/20/2025 10:25:45 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Morgana

I hope the door hits him in the azz on his way out.


62 posted on 02/20/2025 10:31:27 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Morgana

When does his current term end?


63 posted on 02/20/2025 10:33:58 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: dljordan

The egotistical, on the take, Chinese enabler RINO should be fleeing like those bureaucrats resigning in the DC offices just ahead of the evidence being found by the DOGE investigators that they were crooks.


64 posted on 02/20/2025 10:41:36 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Morgana

but the bad news is that — as of this moment — it will likely be a rematch of the 2023 Guv race, which the leftist demonrat won by 5 pts.


65 posted on 02/20/2025 10:48:25 AM PST by rhinohunter (Free at last, free at least! Thank Almighty God, we're free at last!)
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To: Morgana

Good riddance, Yurtle. Maybe KFC will come back to Kentucky now. I wonder how many other businesses he ran out of Kentucky.


66 posted on 02/20/2025 10:49:30 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Fossil
None of us know when our expiration date is.

True. Sinners, starting with me, have to be ready.

Matthew 24:36., "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.".

67 posted on 02/20/2025 10:49:42 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Morgana

Won’t run? He can barely hobble.


68 posted on 02/20/2025 11:00:14 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Morgana

Donald Trump’s GOP Approval Rating Is 99 Points Higher than Mitch McConnell’s

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/19/donald-trumps-gop-approval-rating-is-99-points-higher-than-mitch-mcconnells/?s_o=asc


69 posted on 02/20/2025 11:03:26 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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To: Morgana; All

Why was this traitor ever elected to begin with, and by whom?


70 posted on 02/20/2025 11:05:41 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Morgana

I will always thank Mitch for keeping the evil psychopath, Garland, off the USSC. But China Mitch has betrayed conservatives too many times to warrant any sympathy any more. Retire Mitch. And don’t let the door hit your @$$ on the way out.


71 posted on 02/20/2025 11:26:12 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Morgana

He won’t run when he would have been squashed like a bug anyway? Yeah, OK.


72 posted on 02/20/2025 11:46:54 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Morgana

Now he won’t be falling down stairs.


73 posted on 02/20/2025 11:59:31 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Morgana

Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate.

What do they do for a hobby put their hand in a vice and see how much pain they can take?.

Sounds just like California.


74 posted on 02/20/2025 12:33:28 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: StAnDeliver

I was obviously misinformed. Thanks for the detailed, and yet still snarky, correction.


75 posted on 02/20/2025 1:12:05 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: frank ballenger

Just saying, McConnell is frail, he says he will not run again next year.

Just saying, it is unknown.

Some time ago, I saw him with what looked like a port attached to his wrist. He has been having zone out times where he seems to freeze up in a trance.


76 posted on 02/20/2025 1:20:56 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: FlipWilson

The governor of Kentucky will run. Does he have a chance since he’s won statewide twice?


77 posted on 02/20/2025 1:48:28 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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