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Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who had been Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and senator from Kentucky since 1985, won reelection to a seventh term in office. He faced off against former U.S. Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath and Libertarian Brad Barron. The Democratic and Republican primaries took place on June 23, 2020.
McConnell has been the leader of the Senate Republican Conference since 2007, including as majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history. McConnell holds conservative political positions, although he was known as a pragmatist and a moderate Republican early
The 2020 United States Senate elections were held on November 3, 2020, [1] with the 33 class 2 seats of the Senate contested in regular elections. [2] Of these, 21 were held by Republicans, and 12 by Democrats. The winners were elected to 6-year terms from January 3, 2021, to January 3, 2027. [3]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, finally congratulated Joe Biden Tuesday on winning last month’s election, ending a quixotic six-week effort to deny the ...
After the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who were seeking to block the certification of the 2020 election, McConnell was outspoken about who was to blame for the ...
A staunch conservative, McConnell has feuded with Trump, rejecting the former president's false claims that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election against Democrat Joe Biden.
In addition to Trump's victory in the Commonwealth, Biden became the first Democrat to win the presidency without winning Elliott County since the county was founded in 1869, [6] as well as only the second Democrat to ever lose Elliott County in a presidential election, preceded only by Hillary Clinton four years earlier.
In the book, McConnell described Trump as "stupid as well as being ill-tempered," "despicable" and a "narcissist," after the 2020 election. McConnell shook off the question, answering briefly: "I ...