Sen. Mitch McConnell won't seek reelection in 2026, ending long tenure as Republican power broker

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: Ap

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is announcing 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 fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump.

McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, chose his 83rd birthday to share his decision not to run for another term in Kentucky and to retire when his current term ends. He informed The Associated Press of his decision before he was set to address colleagues in a speech on the Senate floor.

His announcement begins the epilogue of a storied career as a master strategist, one in which he helped forge a conservative Supreme Court and steered the Senate through tax cuts, presidential impeachment trials and fierce political fights.

“Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate,” McConnell said in prepared remarks provided in advance to the AP. “Every day in between I’ve been humbled by the trust they’ve placed in me to do their business here. Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-retirement-34c79ef12bf62d14cb71d3c393f23a83

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I think everyone knew that

He would have been running at age 84 - today is his 83rd birthday.

[maxsolomon]

2. He used to be my most hated Repuke.

Now that seems quaint. Now he seems like a centrist.

Senator Massie will make us wistful for Mitch.

[Wonder Why]

3. Another leader in the hunt for "Profiles in Cowardice". Worthless piece of garbage.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. I wonder if Beshear would run?

[kimbutgar]

10. Kentucky is too far gone to the right now to vote for Besear but the repukes have mastered now how to rig elections.

Our last fair election was in 2022.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I've come under attack on threads for writing

What you are about to read . . .

What if WE rigged the election? I know, I know, I know . . . that's not nice. It's not Democratic. It doesn't play fair.


Yeah - but we are dealing with a Dictatorship guys. Either we cheat or pray for the death of a few critical leaders of the MagaPublican Party - which will then result in violence . . . but might save us from the Dictatorship.

[kimbutgar]

13. Malcolm Nance said he now thinks the election was rigged by the musk🐀 and Russia who called in bomb threats evacuating

The voting stations and got into those tabulation machines and gave the election to the wanna be dictator Putin/Musk puppet ( a few nights after the election i had a weird premonition this happened)

I am really starting to believe that this orange monster is an illegitimate president and he had help rigging it in his favor. And Im keeping my fingers crossed that the musk🐀 and Putin have a falling out with their 🍊💩🤡 and they admit it and starts a civil war in this country

[brush]

5. Quite a jacked-up legacy the a-hole leaves...a corrupt SCOTUS majority...

and a possible trump/Musk dictator ship because he failed to impeach the criminal trump.

Slink off into retirement and face what you've done.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

6. But if we just had our last election ...

will he still be Senator after he's dead?

[Paladin]

7. Good riddance. Way the hell overdue. (nt)

[niyad]

8. I am thinking he won't make it to christmas this year.

[Skittles]

9. go fuck yourself, Mitch

hopefully you are done fucking America but your hideous legacy will live on

[2naSalit]

14. It would be best...

If he exited today, twenty years ago was far too late as it is.

[Skittles]

15. all the money he had and all he wanted to do was fuck America

a thoroughly despicable man

[2naSalit]

16. Thoroughly.

Seems he wants to fuck everybody, not just us. We're a great prize but he wants it all and thinks he can play all the rest of the crowd until he gets where he wants to be, emperor.

Can't wait until he falls off the planet.

[Skittles]

17. he'll be like Pence, piping in with his wisdom about Trump's BS

like we have forgotten their roles in helping to create that fucking monster

[2naSalit]

18. I think he's...

Going to croak before then. I hope he's gone by the 4th of July.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Bye

Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.

[BigmanPigman]

19. Don't let the door hit ya!

I wish I weren't an atheist and believed in hell since this spawn of Satan should be suffering throughout eternity...an eye for an eye.

I wish he suffers unbearable pain and agony for the rest of his (short, I hope) life and that still would not be an equal punishment for this evil, sadistic, sociopathic, misogynist, monster who gleefully destroys a country and kills its citizens.

I hope something really bad happens and he has to linger in unimaginable pain and agony until his Big Daddy Satan calls him to come back home.

That is when I will do my happy dance, bring out the streamers and confetti and noisemakers, set off some fireworks and party on his grave with bells on.

Thoughts and Prayers are not for you, Mitch. Parties and dancing at your death will be what you deserve.