Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he is confident he will become the chamber’s longest-serving party leader despite blistering attacks by former President Donald Trump.
“I have the votes,” McConnell (R-Ky.) told CNN Tuesday.
The 80-year-old has been the top Senate Republican since 2007. If McConnell is elected to another two-year term as conference leader early next year, his tenure would surpass that of Montana Democrat Mike Mansfield, who led his party in the Senate from 1961 to 1977 — serving as majority leader the entire time.
However, McConnell declined to say Tuesday whether he would try to stay on as GOP leader through the remainder of his current Senate term, which ends in 2027.
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