Washington, Feb 20, 2025 (AFP) - Top Republican right-winger McConnell announces leaving US Senate

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2025-02-20

Mitch McConnell, the powerful Republican lawmaker who was instrumental in steering the current US shift to the political right but had a tempestuous relationship with Donald Trump, announced Thursday he would not seek reelection to the Senate. At 83 and in increasingly unsteady health, McConnell's announcement on the Senate floor that he would not seek to return to the chamber at the end of his term next year was not a big surprise. But after ser......

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