Mitch McConnell Stepping Down as Senate Republican Leader in November
He’s not retiring, though.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is stepping down as Senate Republican leader in November:
MCCONNELL: “It’s time for me to think about another season. I love the Senate. It’s been my life. There may be more distinguished members of this body throughout our history, but I doubt there were any with any more admiration for the Senate. After all this time, I still get a thrill walking into the Capitol and especially on this venerable floor, knowing that we, each of us, have the honor to represent our states and do the important work of our country. But father, time remains undefeated. I’m no longer the young man sitting in the back hoping colleagues would remember my name. It’s time for the next generation of leadership.”
Mitch McConnell acknowledges he's out of step with the Republican Party as he announces he will leave the Senate:
"I know the politics within my party at this particular moment in time. I have many faults. Misunderstanding politics is not one of them." pic.twitter.com/OIyOblPhGf
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 28, 2024
🚨Mitch McConnell officially delivers retirement remarks as GOP Leader to Senate:
"This will be my last term as Republican Leader of the Senate… I'm not going anywhere… It's time for the next generation of leadership." pic.twitter.com/tkV2pAIig4
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 28, 2024
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Way too late.
He’s done his damage as requested
Think his timing was to throw all the media attention his way, and deflect from Hunter’s hearing?
Who is his wife and what are her ties to China?
The message of Michigan? Why no post about the primary election?
Is McConnell one of the swampies that Trump inexplicably endorses? Sorry, but I’ve genuinely lost track, and resorting to logic or even intuition is bootless when it comes to Trump political allegiances.
Not sure what you are getting at and what Trump’s endorsements have to do with it what occurred in Michigan last night.
Good riddance. I’m guessing Thune or Cornyn will be the next one which will just be more of the same. I’d love to be wrong.
Hopefully not and the GoP Sen will choose someone outside his Cadre but I am not at all confident that will happen. The other possibility is GoP pick ups in the Senate. The d/prog are defending way more seats and some of them should be layups; WV as one. That may just tip the scale, fingers crossed, be enough to demonstrate to DC that the McConnell Cadre run is over and the DC cabal makes a deal to retain some power v a nasty fight. Probably not but we find out soon enough.
I don’t think either of them will stay in the leadership. They are nothing but McConnell’s pets. Without McConnell I suspect that they will just fade away. Hopefully they’ll each get primaried out at the first possible chance.
If it’s Cornyn I will officially leave the Republican party forever. He’s my senator and I can’t stand the 2-faced, amnesty, Chamber of Commerce stooge. I’m voting for whoever runs against him–Dem or Primary.
I hope so but I read a few stories yesterday that they are positioning themselves to take over from Mitch
How sexist- no mention of mother time.
Q: Why are you stepping down now?
A: I want to step down before I fall down.
Q: Would you recommend Biden do the same?
A: Too late. He already fell down trying to climb the big boy stairs on AF One. That’s why he uses baby steps now.
He’s going to hang around so he can meddle, though.
He needs to be removed from his seat by his state, and someone who actually adheres to conservative, Constitutional principles elected in his place.
Interestingly, the only way House & Senate members can be removed is by a Expulsion (two-thirds vote). I think that’s even the way it worked before the 17th Amendment was adopted.
Clearly, GWB was talking about voters replacing him.
You’re right. But, I was speaking of the electorate in his state, as Henry noted.
We have to get the people voting on proper principles, or voting harder is never going to work.
It would be nice, but he’s got a lock on the seat until 2027… unless he does a Dianne Feinstein. But he’s more like Harry Reid than Feinstein. He’ll be around for a bit.
We should be hoping he has a nasty run-in with his exercise bands?
I call BS. Just like McCarthy, he’s lying about finishing his term because he knows that’s what people expect him to say, and if he says he’s just leaving, then it lessens the chances of him being able to crown his successor RINO. McCarthy orchestrated the removal of Santos, and was publicly bragging about how he was going to do the same to Gaetz, and seems like that was finally the last straw for his remaining RINO supporters.
For Biitch McConnell, it seems like his immigration LUNACY and blatant attempt to give Democrats cover on the issue was finally too much for the actual conservative Senators and he was going to get forcibly removed, so he’s ‘stepping down’ to prevent the final humiliation.
Look for him to begin appearing in Depends ads in the near future.
Not good enough. This despicable post-turtle needs to step down NOW!
McConnell will almost certainly step down at some point in the foreseeable future irrespective of what he’s saying today. Now would be the time for a deep dive by election law legal eagles into the 2001 KY law that was enacted that limits the governor’s ability to appoint a replacement to any vacant US Senate seat in KY.
The GOP majority overrode Beshear’s initial veto of the bill. As of a few months ago, Beshear has refused to commit to following the law. Most observers believe the Besheaar and the Democrats will challenge the constitutionality (state and federal) of the legislation.
I’m not sure if that’s a temporary appointment until a special election can be held or if it’s a gubernatorial appointment for the remainder of the term…which I believe expires in 2026
There’s reasonable debate about whether the law is constitutional according to the KY constitution, it’s definitely not clear-cut.
But McConnell doesn’t care whether his replacement is a Republican or not, just like McCarthy. He’s taking his ball and going home, and going to do his absolute best to screw those horrible ungrateful peasant MAGA voters on his way out.
Just proving why it was a mistake to ever put him in that position in the first place.
McConnell perfectly illustrates why we shouldn’t have “career” politicians.
It illustrates even more why you shouldn’t elect Progressives of either party.
Stick with the Constitutionalists.
“My life has been the Senate”. That’s the problem in a nutshell.
Wow. His health must be MUCH worse than reported. But then, nothing has been reported.
McConnell has had quite a few Biden level glitches that caused his AI code to shut down. He freezes up, stares at the horizon, and someone has to help him move away from cameras.
But that’s the level of Soviet style “Weekend at Bernie’s” hide-them-from-prying-eyes reporting we have come to expect.
Heck, even the SecDef disappeared longer than Jesus before being crucified, and no one reported on it.
About the only thing I agree with Taylor Swift on is not re-electing Mitch McConnell. That said, we would differ widely on voting his replacement.
Since he won’t step down, maybe this is the way?
maybe this is the way?
I’m a little confused. Do you mean playing Taylor Swift music at McConnell until he quits?
Or getting the Republican party to write a song about him?
I meant…primarying him. But yeah Taylor Swift might just lead him to suicide.
Cocaine Mitch is reading the tea leaves. He is not going to be reelected after stabbing Republicans in the back one too many times.
Good riddance, ahole. The “happy to lose as long as I get to go to the dinner parties” days are over. The fork over you soul secret deal in the border surrender was the last straw.
There about a dozen +/- GoP Sen in McConnell’s cabal of neocon/90’s era policy types who ain’t leaving; Thune, Cornyn, Graham, Lankford among others.
The random downvoter is back.
Good news. If Trump wins he needs full GOP support to confirm HIS nominees. It may mean recess appointments which McConnell refused his first term.
Hard to implement your agenda if your only options for key positions are political enemies.
Making the less than certain assumption that there is a real election in November, that the votes are honestly counted and reported, there are no sudden deaths muddying the waters, and there is a legal, constitutional inauguration of a president in January; there are two paths.
1) If Joe Biden or a successor inserted by the Left becomes president, McConnell will be the one EXPECTED to fight to retain the constitutional republic. In such a case, McConnell has neither the desire nor the ability to successfully do so and he does not want to go down in history as failing to do so, especially as is likely, deliberately. Plus there will be the historically “interesting times” attendant upon the collapse of a Social Contract which he may want to distance himself from. His “friends” on the Left will probably turn on him,
2) If President Trump is elected, there will be much that needs to be done to save the country and restore a constitutional republic. McConnell has had too great a hand in working for their destruction up to now to be trusted. At the same time he will be facing a President with a long memory of being betrayed, and if there is a Republican Congress quite possibly a lot of people with vengeful memories. From McConnell’s point of view, it may well be that beating feet out of there is his best option.
Subotai Bahadur
” From McConnell’s point of view, it may well be that beating feet out of there is his best option.”
Most people go for their best option at least as they see it, most of the time,
When people do something weird, ask how this makes sense for them. They know something you don’t, have a different take on how the world works, or want something other than you thougth.
Now, if only Biden and Trump would step down, The perfect trifecta. I am so tired of being ruled by geriatric senile imbeciles.
Said the 70+ year old.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Ace is saying, and I’ve seen a couple other places now, that this is all just complete BS from McConnell, and that they were getting ready to hold a vote to outright remove him from leadership, and this is him trying to cut that off by claiming he’s retiring, and then UN-retiring at the end of the year when he thinks the base blowback has died down.
Definitely believable. Just like McCarthy was trying to sabotage any replacement to try and weasel his way back in as the ‘compromise’ Speaker.
These RINO jackholes cling to power until the last second possible.
So, here we are, watching Mitch co-lead our ruination.
I wonder why he thinks his progeny will survive the Marxist overthrow of our country; history shows aristocrats and their enablers are the first to be introduced to the “sharp sister.”
There’s a lot of chatter as well about how this ‘November’ crap is an attempt to screw us all over on his way out the door, as well.
Why NOVEMBER. The end of the term is only a few weeks later in mid-January.
Why?
Because
1) He keeps control of the Senate re-election fund and can use it to screw as many MAGA peasants as possible on his way out the door
2) He is clearly expecting a huge MAGA wave, and this lets him have the CURRENT group of Senators vote on his replacement with zero input from newly elected, and then gives them the ‘incumbency’ going into the new term. Clearly a last-ditch effort to crown his chosen RINO successor (probably Cornyn)
Rand Paul is the obvious choice for America, but Mitch needs to screw us all over one last time.
I’d take Cruz or JD Vance. While I think both would be ok I just want to see Democrats run around screeching with their hair on fire