McConnell Will Step Down as Senate Republican Leader in November After Record Run in the Job

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "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," Mr. McConnell said in his prepared remarks.
66% : "It has been my life.
48% : His decision punctuates a powerful ideological transition under way in the Republican Party, from Reagan's brand of traditional conservatism and strong alliances to the fiery, often isolationist populism of Trump.
48% : "Mr. Trump has pulled the party hard to the ideological right, questioning longtime military alliances such as NATO and international trade agreements, and pushing for a severe crackdown on immigration, all the while clinging to the falsehood that the election was stolen from him in 2020.
43% : "His decision punctuates a powerful ideological transition under way in the Republican Party, from Ronald Reagan's brand of traditional conservatism and strong international alliances to the fiery, often isolationist populism of President Trump.
31% : Messrs. McConnell and Trump had worked together in Mr. Trump's first term, remaking the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary in a far more conservative image, and on tax legislation.

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