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The Republican leader’s decision to throw his support behind his tormentor is not surprising Donald Trump has called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a “Broken Down Crow,” a “dumb son of a bitch,” a “stone-cold loser,” a “RINO,” leveled racist insults at his wife, and accused him of having a “death wish” for supporting bills opposed by the former president.  None of this stopped McConnell from endorsing Trump’s bid to retake the White House this November.  On Wednesday, McConnell…

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader. Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one point waved at migrants through a barbed wire fence and claimed, “They like Trump, can you believe it?” Co-anchor Colin Jost offered a rational response, given Trump’s Hilter-adjascent…

The longtime Republican Senate leader announced on Wednesday that he will step down from the Senate in November Mitch McConnell is stepping down from Congress. The Kentucky Republican is announcing on Wednesday that he will leave his post leading Senate Republicans in November. “One of life’s most under-appreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said in an address before the Senate. “So I stand before you today … to say that this will be my last term as…

WASHINGTON —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has spent years facing questions about her mental capacity and fitness for office, got some unwelcome company in the health spotlight this week.In a moment that cast a grim light on America’s aging class of political leaders, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) froze mid-sentence during his weekly news conference Wednesday, standing unblinking with his mouth pursed for a full 20 seconds before his colleagues escorted him away from the microphones and Sen. Joni Ernst…

The Senate minority leader joked that he had been “sandbagged” hours after needing to be escorted out of a presser Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joked that he had been “sandbagged” hours after freezing during the start of a weekly Republican leadership press briefing and needing to be guided out of the room.  McConnell returned to the press conference a few minutes later, and told reporters that he was “fine.” An aid for the minority leader’s office added that he…

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WASHINGTON —  The television split screen told the story.On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of the 15 ballots they needed during four days of gridlock to choose Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker.On the other side, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell stood beaming with President Biden as they congratulated each other for a bipartisan success: a $1.6-billion deal to replace a crumbling highway bridge across the Ohio River.On one side, partisan dysfunction. On the other, an…

FTX US contributed to a super-PAC fighting for control of the Senate in the midterm election just days before the company’s collapse. FTX US, a part of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire that catered to American customers, 's collapse. The Senate Leadership Fund, which is aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and was the top spender in the 2022 midterms, received the $1 million donation on Oct. 27, according to its most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission. Only a couple of weeks later,…