Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell will only be the most powerful man in Congress for a few more hours! I'm not a “big” DC journalist but I pushed my way through at news conferences, intent on asking him questions on everything from #climatechange to #reparations (A THREAD)

At no time in our history has the fight for #Reparations for Black Americans received as much attention as it did during the 2020 campaign. I asked McConnell if he supported #Reparations and if there should be a public apology for the theft of labor. https://twitter.com/evamckend/status/1141074540153511941

I was the one that asked McConnell if he could be an impartial juror in President Trump's first impeachment trial.

"I'm not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There's not anything judicial about it," he told me.

Boy, how things have changed https://twitter.com/evamckend/status/1207106604686020608

I got McConnell to acknowledge #climatechange is real and that humans are contributing to a warming globe. https://twitter.com/evamckend/status/1110675162045825027

I asked McConnell why Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was doing business in Kentucky with the support of the state's most powerful politicians.

This TIME piece used his response: https://time.com/5651345/rusal-investment-braidy-kentucky/ https://twitter.com/evamckend/status/1126112471050276867

While heads of state from around the world were congratulating President-elect Biden, Republican leadership continued to show deference to President Trump.

I asked McConnell if they were afraid of Trump. https://twitter.com/evamckend/status/1326236694748815369