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Mitch McConnell Beats Rick Scott in Republican Senate Leadership Fight
The Kentucky Republican will retain his party’s top post in the next Congress despite a disappointing election showing.
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The drama over Rick Scott’s challenge of Mitch McConnell for Republican leader, explained
After a disappointing midterms cycle for Republicans, Rep. Kevin McCarthy isn’t the only one facing pushback from his own caucus.
In the Senate, M [...]
Trump Shows Support For McCarthy As Speaker, But McConnell Would Be Out
The former president said that, if he runs for president and wins in 2024, Senator Mitch McConnell will “be out in two minutes.”
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Rick Scott Lashes Out at Mitch McConnell in Sign of Dimming Republican Hopes for Senate
Senator Rick Scott appeared to escalate a quarrel with Senator Mitch McConnell, indicating eroding confidence in the party about reclaiming a majority [...]
McConnell Dismisses the Threats to U.S. Democracy
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, also said that voter fraud was rare, a contrast to false claims by former President Donald J. Tr [...]
Biden Ends Plan to Name Anti-Abortion Lawyer Backed by McConnell as Judge
WASHINGTON — The White House is abandoning plans to nominate a Kentucky lawyer who opposes abortion rights and is backed by Senator Mitch McConnell to [...]
On Ukraine, McConnell Tries to Show the World This Isn’t Trump’s G.O.P.
And of course, the best salesman against isolationism in America is President Zelensky. As you heard others say, Winston Churchill in a T-shirt. He’s [...]
McConnell Takes On Isolationist Wing of G.O.P. in Fight for Ukraine Aid
“I don’t think America has anything against Ukraine,” Mr. Hagerty said on Fox News. “We don’t want to see them fail, but we have problems right here a [...]
McConnell and Other Republican Senators Make Secret Visit to Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, visited Ukraine on Saturday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, leading [...]
McConnell and McCarthy’s Jan. 6 Fury at Trump Faded by February
In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McCo [...]
Why Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell Are Feuding Over Midterm Elections
“That was probably the first thing that Chuck did that showed him as a national political leader,” recalled Kessler. With Scott’s plan, he said of Sch [...]
Ketanji Brown Jackson to meet with McConnell this week
Jackson will be joined on Wednesday by her “sherpa” for the confirmation process, former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.). Schumer has said he hopes to have [...]
How McConnell Hopes to Thwart Trump in the Midterms
PHOENIX — For more than a year, former President Donald Trump has berated Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, savaging him for refusing to overturn the state’ [...]
McConnell Denounces R.N.C. Censure of Jan. 6 Panel Members
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, pushed back hard on Tuesday against the Republican Party’s censure of Representatives Liz C [...]
McConnell Warns Against ‘Radical’ Supreme Court Pick
As for Mr. McConnell, it is not clear what he could do to block a nominee, after he personally engineered a Senate rule change in 2017 to ensure that [...]