McConnell, the longest serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, said in a floor speech that his “current term in the Senate will be my last.”
“Regardless of the political storms that may wash over this chamber … I assure our colleagues that I will depart with great hope for the endurance of the Senate as an institution,” he said.
A large cohort of ambitious Kentucky Republicans has long been angling to succeed the 83-year-old former Senate GOP leader, who has held his seat since 1985.
I never thought I’d be more fearful than grateful for Mitch McConnell’s exit from politics.
I think it’s far more good than bad. He helped create a monster that he could never control. His monster was always going to be a monster with or without him. So at least with him going there’s a chance there will be one less skillful madman near the levers of power.