Why so many people are desperate to end Mitch McConnell’s political career

The 78-year-old faces tough challenge as he seeks 7th term, writes Andrew Buncombe

Mitch McConnell is an obstructionist-turned enabler say critics (Getty)

If you hang around long enough in politics, you cannot help but make enemies.

Mitch McConnell has been around an awful long time – he was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and served previously in the administration of Gerald Ford. He has an awful lot of enemies.

At the age of 78, the Senate majority leader is seeking his seventh term this November. Yet there is a wave of people determined to ensure he is not reelected, opposed not simply to his politics, but outraged by the way he has allowed Donald Trump to trample over the traditions and powers of the upper chamber of Congress.