{"id":11898,"date":"2024-02-29T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/mcconnell-stepping-down-as-senate-gop-leader\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:45:38","slug":"mcconnell-stepping-down-as-senate-gop-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/mcconnell-stepping-down-as-senate-gop-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Stepping Down as Senate GOP Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is planning to step down as the Senate Republican leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of life\u2019s most underappreciated talents is to know when it\u2019s time to move on to life\u2019s next chapter,\u201d McConnell said in a statement obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mitch-mcconnell-senate-republican-leader-stepping-down-ba478d570a4561aa7baf91a204d7e366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cSo I stand before you today \u2026 to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate GOP leader noted he will complete his term, which ends in January 2027, \u201cfrom a different seat in the chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I have been thinking about when I would deliver some news to the Senate, I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work,\u201d he said. \u201cA moment when I am certain I have helped preserve the ideals I so strongly believe. It arrived today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, 82, is the longest-serving Senate leader in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am unconflicted about the good within our country and the irreplaceable role we play as the leader of the free world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8Mitch McConnell officially delivers retirement remarks as GOP Leader to Senate:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be my last term as Republican Leader of the Senate\u2026 I&#8217;m not going anywhere\u2026 It&#8217;s time for the next generation of leadership.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tkV2pAIig4\">pic.twitter.com\/tkV2pAIig4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1762900709496828202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The news comes as McConnell suffered several health scares throughout 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, McConnell was <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hospitalized<\/a> after falling at a hotel in Washington D.C. A spokesperson for McConnell confirmed the incident, stating that the 81-year-old had \u201ctripped at a local hotel during a private dinner\u201d and was \u201creceiving treatment\u201d at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the Senate Minority leader <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-mid-sentence-stares-blankly-during-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">froze<\/a> during a press conference, staring blankly in front of him. The almost 20-second situation concerned his colleagues, who asked if he was okay.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident occurred in August, when McConnell began to <a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/senate-minority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-suffers-second-brief-pause-during-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">respond<\/a> to a reporter but stopped mid-sentence, staying silent for an estimated 30 seconds. As he paused, an aide approached the senator, asking, \u201cdid you hear the question, senator, running for reelection in 2026?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s reply was unintelligible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/mcconnell-stepping-down-as-senate-gop-leader\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is planning to step down as the Senate Republican leader. \u201cOne of life\u2019s most underappreciated talents is to know when it\u2019s time to move on to life\u2019s next chapter,\u201d McConnell said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press. \u201cSo I stand before you today \u2026 to say that this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}