Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President Donald Trump key first-term political victories and deliver a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority.

Mitch McConnell is pushing back against President Trump’s most controversial nominees, becoming an unlikely — and sometimes lonely — face of Republican resistance.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was the lone Republican to vote against Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, and CNN analysts agreed he's got "nothing to lose" in opposing president Donald Trump.