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Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced that this would be his last term as
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WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate
party leader in history, said Wednesday he would step down from his leadership
role in November, yielding to both the pressures of age and the rapid changes in
the Republican Party. 

As the top Senate Republican since 2007, the Kentucky lawmaker wielded
brass-knuckled tactics to install conservatives on the Supreme Court, defeat
campaign-finance measures and see through the passage of major tax cuts in 2017.
But as former President Donald Trump, a McConnell critic, marches toward the
2024 GOP nomination, the Senate leader has fallen out of step with major
elements of his conference, most recently over his support for aid to Ukraine
and his backing of a muscular U.S. role abroad.

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