CNN WIRE - Mitch McConnell to step down from leadership role in the Senate: VIDEO - Westfair Communications

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "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 said in his floor remarks.
68% : He thanked his wife of 31 years, calling her the "love of my life" and that "I'm eternally grateful to have her by my side.
61% : "And that's the election that we need to take the presidency, and the Senate, and the House and that's where my focus is right now.
36% : The typically tight-lipped Senate Republican leader rarely broke from Trump in his four years as president.
35% : Notably, however, there have been significant moments where McConnell has been at odds with Trump, who is now the GOP frontrunner in the race for the White House, setting up a clash between the two powerful Republicans.
12% : After a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, seeking to overturn Joe Biden's presidential win, McConnell blamed Trump for provoking the attack, but still voted to acquit him of inciting an insurrection after the House moved to impeach.
8% : And McConnell has a strained relationship with the Republican Party's front-runner for the presidential nomination: Donald Trump.

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