Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

Mitch McConnell Knows He Has No Place in Trump's Party

The GOP's Reagan wing is moribund, and Trumpism has swept past a once formidable — and ruthless — political player.

February 28, 2024 at 8:40 PM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

There is no more room for two parts of the Republican Party.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell saw the writing on the wall. He has no place in this Republican Party. It belongs to Donald Trump.

Ronald Reagan’s wing of the party is moribund, crushed by MAGA. And so, McConnell, who got married on Reagan’s birthday, will step down from his leadership post in November, bowing to the reality of his own irrelevance.