Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky may not be ready to leave the Senate, telling a Kentucky television station that there’s a “great likelihood” he runs again in 2020.
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“I’m at the top of my game,” McConnell told WKYT in Kentucky on Sunday. “I think I’ve been effective in serving our people, and there’s a great likelihood I’ll run again.”
McConnell would be 78 years old in 2020 when his term is up. It remains unclear if McConnell would face another primary challenge from his right in 2020, but his remarks give his conservative antagonists plenty of time to find one.
His primary opponent Matt Bevin successfully claimed the governorship in 2015.
McConnell handily defeated Bevin by garnering 60 percent of the vote in the Republican primary. He then defeated Democrat Alison Grimes by 16 points in the general election.
