Fox News: Mitch McConnell to Step Down as Senate GOP Leader in November

FAULKNER: “Breaking news gives us a new topic to talk about definitely on the other side. A Senate majority leader — minority leader, he’s ranking leader in the Senate, because Republicans are not in the leadership majority, Mitch McConnell will step down from his post in November. And we know that he is the longest serving Senate Leader in history, who has maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for nearly two decades. They’ve had a lot of change. Well, let’s not even ignore the — the stuff that’s happened on the other side and is happening now. I’m reading to you just so you know, from the ‘Associated Press.’ So it is written with some interesting color. McConnell just turned 82 last week and was set to announce his decision today in well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985, when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in front row seat afforded by party leaders. Again, Mitch McConnell is stepping down, and he’ll leave his job as the leader of Republicans in the Senate in November. He has taken a lot of heat lately. Some of it over deals that — that Republicans wider, particularly in the House, across chamber have not agreed upon. This latest round on the border bill, which originally had aid for Ukraine $60 plus billion, it had, you know, money for other countries, like Israel and Hamas war so on and so forth. But it only had a smaller amount, not even a third of what was going to Ukraine for the U.S. border and it was a border bill. Now, what were the conversations like that got Republicans in the Senate, to — to the point where that would even be under discussion, because Republicans in the House had already sent H.R. 2.”