{"id":104521,"date":"2024-02-28T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mcconnell-to-step-down-as-senate-gop-leader-after-more-than-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:03:49","slug":"mcconnell-to-step-down-as-senate-gop-leader-after-more-than-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mcconnell-to-step-down-as-senate-gop-leader-after-more-than-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell to step down as Senate GOP leader after more than a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-28\/GettyImages-2043629531.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Kentucky&#8217;s Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Senate leader in history, will step down from that position in November.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, who turned 82 last week, announced the decision in a speech on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To serve Kentucky in the Senate has been the honor of my life,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To lead my Republican colleagues has been the highest privilege. But one of life&#8217;s most under-appreciated talents is to know when it&#8217;s time to move onto life&#8217;s next chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I stand before you today, Mr. President and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going anywhere anytime soon. I&#8217;ll complete my job my colleagues have given me to do until we select a new leader in November and they take the helm next January.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell also made clear he&#8217;ll finish his term as senator.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Kentucky&#8217;s Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Senate leader in history, will step down from that position in November. McConnell, who turned 82 last week, announced the decision in a speech on the Senate floor. &#8220;To serve Kentucky in the Senate has been the honor<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/mcconnell-to-step-down-as-senate-gop-leader-after-more-than-a-decade\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}