BREAKING: MCCONNELL TO STEP DOWN AS REPUBLICAN SENATE LEADER
Mitch McConnell, 82, will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November.
McConnell is expected to announce on Wednesday.
“One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. “So I stand before you today … to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
AP reported:
Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
