Mitch McConnell has confessed over the years that as a junior member of the Senate, he longed to be the one whom reporters chased down for information as he jealously watched his more senior colleagues being pursued by the media while he was ignored.
He noted that President Ronald Reagan had once misidentified him as Mitch O’Donnell.
Then, after Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, had accumulated real power in the Senate as both majority and minority leader over a 17-year stretch and deftly applied it to bend the Senate to his will, he clammed up.
He often refused to even acknowledge the existence of the press as reporters posed questions and he strolled by, sphinx-like.
He reiterated that view on Thursday in his first day as a lame-duck leader.
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