I think, in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a Senate of the opposite party of the president, you have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy was filled.
Mitch McConnell: “I think, in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a Senate of the opposite party of the president, you have…”
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Mitch McConnell discusses the unlikelihood of confirming a Supreme Court nominee from a Democratic president during an election year.
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So I hate that I’ll miss the fun this year, but I’m sending my best wishes to the St. Jerome community for a successful picnic.
On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period.
I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders. Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky…
When I first attended forty-two years ago, Fancy Farm was a pretty lonely place to be a Republican,” McConnell said. “But, my, how times have changed. Today, western Kentucky is a conservative Republican sea of red. So I hate that I’ll…





