{"id":6505,"date":"2025-02-24T01:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-announces-retirement-from-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T01:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:20:32","slug":"mcconnell-announces-retirement-from-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-announces-retirement-from-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell announces retirement from the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former majority leader and the most consequential Republican senator of his generation, said Thursday he will not seek reelection next year. &#8220;Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate,&#8221; McConnell said in a midday floor speech. &#8220;Every day in between&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/20\/congress\/mitch-mcconnell-will-retires-from-senate-00205151\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former majority leader and the most consequential Republican senator of his generation, said Thursday he will not seek reelection next year. &#8220;Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate,&#8221; McConnell said in a midday floor speech. &#8220;Every day in between&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}