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Addison Mitchell McConnell III [1] (/ m ə ˈ k ɒ n ə l /; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, since 1985. McConnell is in his seventh Senate term and is longest-serving senator in Kentucky history.
Voter ID laws would not have prevented the ballot harvesting that took place; experts said that McConnell was conflating ballot fraud (where someone manipulates ballots of legitimate voters) with voter fraud (voting by illegitimate voters). [173] The Associated Press and PolitiFact described McConnell's remarks as "misleading." [174] [175]
A vote on the leadership position will take place in November, with whoever replaces McConnell stepping into the position of minority or majority leader in January alongside the election of the ...
Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who had been Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and senator from Kentucky since 1985, won reelection to a seventh term in office. He faced off against former U.S. Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath and Libertarian Brad Barron. The Democratic and Republican primaries took place on June 23, 2020.
It also marks an end to Sen. Mitch McConnell's 18-year reign as the top Republican in the Senate. McConnell, a frequent Trump critic , has said that he plans to focus on defense policy for the ...
McConnell’s path to power was hardly linear, but from the day he walked onto the Senate floor in 1985 and took his seat as the most junior Republican senator, he set his sights on being the ...
Incumbent leader Mitch McConnell defeated a challenge by Florida senator Rick Scott in a vote by secret ballot. This was the first contested conference leadership election since 1996, and marked a departure from the tradition of unanimously confirming incumbent leaders who chose to run for re-election.
McConnell first took office in 1985 and has served as Republican leader since 2007, when George W. Bush was in the White House. McConnell, the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, turned ...