{"id":1793876,"date":"2023-01-03T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793876"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:05:06","slug":"mcconnell-becomes-longest-serving-party-leader-in-senate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-becomes-longest-serving-party-leader-in-senate-history\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Becomes Longest-Serving Party Leader in Senate History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-becomes-longest-serving-party-leader-in-senate-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Old-Crow-Mitch-McConnell-80-Becomes-Longest-Serving-Party-Leader-in-Senate-History.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who personifies the need for term limits, will become the longest-serving party leader in Senate history on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>80-year-old McConnell will remain the Republican minority leader in the 118th Congress, eclipsing the late Democratic Sen. Mike Mansfield\u2019s time from 1961 to 1977.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell overcame ten Republican \u201cno\u201d votes last year to remain minority leader.<\/p>\n<p>The votes against \u201cold crow\u201d McConnell marked the first time he had received a \u201cno\u201d vote as a leader, signaling the tide is turning against RINO establishment Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t own this job,\u201d McConnell claimed after the vote. \u201cAnybody who wants to run for it can feel free to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell will deliver a speech on the Senate floor as he becomes the longest-serving party leader \u2013  which will <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read <\/a>in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDesignated party floor leaders have been a feature of the Senate for more than a hundred years. And no two have done the job exactly alike\u2026 [T] here\u2019ve been leaders who rose to the job through lower-key, behind-the-scenes styles; who preferred to focus on serving their colleagues rather than dominating them. And that \u2026 is how Senator Michael Joseph Mansfield of Montana became the longest-serving Senate leader in American history until this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McConnell has faced former President Donald Trump\u2019s wrath for working against conservatives in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/trump-torches-old-crow-mitch-mcconnell-for-helping-democrats-with-omnibus-bill\/\">blasted McConnell<\/a> after the RINO Republican claimed his \u201cpolitical clout has diminished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/mitch-mcconnell-teams-up-with-joe-biden-to-promote-infrastructure\/\">Mitch McConnell Teams Up with Joe Biden to Promote Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Old Crow waited just 10 days, the Republican Majority in the House could have made the \u2018Ominous\u2019 Bill MUCH, MUCH, MUCH BETTER. Just another win for the Democrats, Mitch, that wouldn\u2019t have happened if \u2018Trump\u2019 were President!\u201d Trump wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109580842369289074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Omnibus Bill is an unmitigated disaster. Mitch McConnell pushed it through for the Democrats. So bad for our Country, so bad for the Republican Party!\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell has been actively working against conservatives and MAGA.<\/p>\n<p>He defunded conservative midterm campaigns while funding establishment candidates against conservatives, helped President Joe Biden to pass far-left legislation, and voted to give Ukraine over $100 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>He also supported gun control measures and even refused to condemn Biden\u2019s speech which labeled \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Under McConnell\u2019s Senate leadership, illegal immigration has continued, the national debt soared, and real wages for American workers have remained stagnant.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell is the reason term limits are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who personifies the need for term limits, will become the longest-serving party leader in Senate history on Tuesday. 80-year-old McConnell will remain the Republican minority leader in the 118th Congress, eclipsing the late Democratic Sen. Mike Mansfield\u2019s time from 1961 to 1977. McConnell overcame ten Republican \u201cno\u201d votes last year to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4919,3939,13061,5194,4787,3819,3740],"class_list":["post-1793876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-history","tag-leader","tag-longest-serving","tag-mcconnell","tag-party","tag-report","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}