Evening Edition: Sen. McConnell Announces He Is Stepping Down From Senate GOP Leadership

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell, history's longest serving leader of the Senate, has announced he will be leaving that position come this November. Senator McConell, who just turned eighty four, maybe best remembered for blocking President Obama's pick for filling a Supreme court vacancy back in 2016 and shifting lower-courts to a more conservative ideology. And now the question is, who will take his position later this year? FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Jared Halpern, FOX News Audio Washington correspondent and host of the 'From Washington' podcast, about Senator McConnell's long legacy and who may replace him. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Duffy I'm Janice Dean I'm Tom Shaloo and this is the Fox News rundown
0:08.9	Wednesday February 28th 2024 I, I'm Eben Brown, an era ends on Capitol Hill as the top
0:17.0	Republican in the US Senate says he will not seek a leadership role come November.
0:22.0	Mitch McConnell, he has been the Republican leader of the Senate
0:26.6	since January 3, 2007.
0:30.3	That is a long time, really a historic run, it leadership in the US Senate.
0:36.0	This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
0:40.0	It's hard to imagine a time when Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wasn't at the front of the line of Senate Republicans.
0:50.4	He's been the party leader in the Senate as majority or minority leader.
0:54.0	He was the majority whip under leader Bill Frist.
0:57.0	McConnell is now saying that in November he will leave the party leadership.
1:01.0	I stand before you today, Mr President,
1:03.2	and my colleagues to say this will be my last term
1:07.1	as Republican leader to the Senate.
1:10.0	That truly marks the end of an era,
1:12.4	especially for his allies, and maybe more so for his detractors.
1:16.2	Mitch McConnell has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985.
1:20.2	Fox's Jarrett Halburn is our long serving Capitol Hill correspondent.
1:24.0	He's been covering Mitch McConnell this whole time.
1:27.0	He has been the Republican leader of the Senate,
1:31.0	either as the minority leader as he is now or as the majority leader as he
1:35.3	was from 2015 to 2021 he has been the Republican leader of the Senate since January 3rd, 2007.
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