Senators often serve multiple terms, gaining power and influence over time ... about aging legislators' ability to address evolving issues. When U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell leaves office next year, ...

McConnell has increasingly found himself out of step with a GOP shifting toward the fiery, often isolationist populism espoused by Trump. He set a new precedent for hardball partisan tactics in ...

Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the ...

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ...

Washington — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ...

But since then, we’ve allowed that power to atrophy ... Before ascending to party leader in 2007, McConnell led the Republican Senate campaign arm for the 1998 and 2000 cycles, when the party ...

With an arm around each, he turned to those assembled ... during President Donald Trump's time in power. McConnell and Trump have a famously icy relationship — the pair didn't speak for several ...

Even more alarming, the attack is waged by members of the highest levels of government who know the judiciary is not an arm of any ... checking presidential power? Judge McConnell is a pillar ...

Trump did not appear Thursday to understand that McConnell had polio as a child, a factor as he weighed Kennedy’s nomination. “He’s lost his power,” Trump said. “It’s one of those ...

And it shows the shifts in his power, as few other Republicans joined him, leaving him often on his own, with Democrats, unable to stop Trump’s choices. “McConnell’s votes on the Trump ...

the former chair of Senate Republicans' campaign arm who worked with McConnell ... side of the Kentucky senator. While Leader McConnell built his power by understanding and reflecting the wishes ...

It gives him immunity from the primary threats, arm-wringing and behind-the-scenes lobbying that brought other GOP senators into line. Asked about his votes, McConnell’s office on Thursday ...