Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will step down from his position in November, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The eighty-two-year-old senator will announce the decision on Wednesday, the publication reported. He will have been the longest-serving Senate leader in United States history.
“One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” McConell will say in prepared remarks, which were obtained by The Associated Press. “So I stand before you today … to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
“As I have been thinking about when I would deliver some news to the Senate, I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work,” McConnell will add. “A moment when I am certain I have helped preserve the ideals I so strongly believe. It arrived today.”
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