Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell today announced he will stop down from his leadership role in November after the election. He has held the position for a record-breaking 17 years. Presently, Senators John Thune (R-SD) and John Cornyn (R-TX) are likely to compete to replace McConnell.
McConnell has many “accomplishments,” including paving the way for the 6-3 conservative hold on the Supreme Court. He and Trump are known to have numerous differences, including that McConnell held Trump “practically and morally responsible” for the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
At the time, McConnell said, “American citizens attacked their own government. They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth — because he was angry he’d lost an election.”