Will Mitch McConnell remain Republican leader if Democrats take the senate?

[Mr.Bakari-Sellers]

McConnell isn't safe at 20% unemployment just like he wasnt safe in 2008. In 2014 it was a R midterm

[NewYorkExpress]

The only way he doesn't remain Republican leader is if Trump endorses someone else (unlikely, McConnell probably saved him from being removed from office...I'm sure a lot of Senate Republicans would have preferred to just install Pence as President) or someone from another wing of the Party (Cruz, Lee, Cotton, Romney) garners enough support to force McConnell to stand down before a vote of all Republican Senators.

I don't see either of those things happening, so McConnell should remain Senate Leader (assuming he wins reelection-don't count McGrath out yet, folks)

[Mr.Bakari-Sellers]

The Rs dont want to admit the fact they won in 2010 and 2014 on 9 percent unemployment, Dems won in 2008 on 7 percent unemployment.  In those R wave yrs the unemployment rate was going down, regulation of Banks. Deregulation of Banks have caused the financial collapse of 2008 and 2020

[Flyersfan232]

He seems like the type to go on as long as the Republican caucus allows him to (for the next 12 years or so), and his ability to keep them in line on key votes doesn't appear to be diminishing. I think it would take either a big defeat in the Senate or a defeat that extended significantly beyond Trump's losses for McConnell to be dethroned.

Grassley retiring in 2022 doesn't seem a sure bet to me, either. He seems relatively active and would be younger than 90 at the point of his re-election, which is (on paper) politically viable judging by other elderly senators' re-election bids (Feinstein, Inhofe etc.). The IA Republicans could try to push him out, but why risk a contentious primary when a GE bid will probably be safer in 2028 than 2022?

Another think to note is his grandson who seem to be a rising star (( he is a 37 year old speaker of the house in Iowa)) so their that.

[Flyersfan232]

He’d probably resign outright if he was no longer the leader of the Senate Republicans. But I don’t think Beshear has any limits on his ability to replace him.

He won't resign and allow Beshear to pick a successor.

beshear wouldn’t  be too happy with Mitch either because if the gop is losing the senate Biden wins the replacement who is a dem will lose special election right and it will hurt beshear already tough chances of re-election.

[Flyersfan232]

Pelosi did in The House, and there's far less reason to do that.

Schumer also had a fairly 'meh' cycle in 2018 and wasn't binned.

How was 2018 a 'meh' cycle for Senate Democrats? They did remarkably well in the Senate considering that "polarization" is supposedly at an all-time high and that the Senate map was one of the most favorable maps to Republicans in history.

Florida?

but WV and MT holding was good for D's, I think Sherrod Brown would have narrowly survived even if the GOP tried with a stronger opponent.

I think Taylor would have beaten brown