WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell has been here before.
It was a full decade ago that he had been stung by a string of 2012 Senate losses that left him short of the majority he would eventually claim in 2014.
Now with the lessons of 2022’s midterm Senate defeats hanging over his party and his own legislative influence curtailed due to the dawn of a capricious Republican-led House, analysts see the Kentuckian with a stubborn focus on the long path back to power in 2024.
