Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has announced that he won’t seek reelection next year.

McConnell is the longest-serving Senate party leader in the history of the US.

DAILY POST reports that the announcement that he won’t seek reelection has ended a decades-long tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes


The senator from Kentucky chose his 83rd birthday to share his decision not to run for another term, and to instead retire when his current term ends.

McConnell recently ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump.

He had split from the vast majority of his Republican colleagues and cast several recent votes defying Trump.

The former leader opposed a trio of the then Trump’s cabinet nominees, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/20/republican-senator-mitch-mcconnell-announces-he-wont-seek-reelection-in-2026/