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Be the longest serving leader. it was very notable that first week of congress. you know, he was out there with joe biden talking about infrastructure. mitch mcconnell understands that the party has an image problem. you know, it is a policy problem, but as much as anything, it is that people think we are not a serious party with serious people. and he wants to, you know, he had a bunch of primaries in the senate where he would like to be a majority leader right now. but he is not because a lot of senate republican candidates won their primaries that had no chance of winning a general election...

Greene or paul gosar to, hey, knock it off when you start going down crazy rabbit holes. and that is the reality that they are gonna be facing for the next two years. >> what does mitch mcconnell think right now? as he gazes upon the lower chamber? >> well, i think mitch mcconnell is probably also himself in a bit of a legacy mode. he is probably in his last term. he has just gotten himself to be the longest serving leader. it was very notable that first week of congress. you know, he was out there with joe biden talking about infrastructure. mitch mcconnell understands that the party has an i...

What really stands out to me today is the juxtaposition, the unity on the democratic side of the aisle. not even nancy pelosi would get unanimous support for speaker the way jeffries is getting. democratic leadership just went through an entire transition of their leadership team without any kind of chaos or any kind of fanfare. then look at the juxtaposition with republican leadership in the senate where you have mitch mcconnell becoming the longest serving leader in congressional history, at the least in senate history. the steadyness and stability of mcconnell juxtaposed to what we're seein...

Could be cut out for mccarthy. >> switching over to the senate, senate eric scott announced tuesday he's running to unsiege mcconnell as minority leader. in a letter to his republican colleagues, he wrote, "i believe it is time for the senate republican conference to be more far bold and resolute than we have in the past," he also added this. >> well, i don't own this job, anybody in the conference is certainly entitled to challenge me. i welcome the contest. >> if mcconnell wins, he would become the longest serving leader in the history of the senate. >> matt, back to you a little later on. ...

Unfolding fight for the future gop. they're meeting behind closed doors on who will lead them. >> rick scott is expected to challenge mitch mcconnell. so the big question, of course, will the challenge work? manu raji is liv-- raj uu is on capitol hill. >> reporter: we'll see if there's ultimately 50, but 49 members will be voting today. mitch mcconnell, according to virtually every single count, has those votes to become the next republican leader, and then will achieve a record of longer serving leader of -- he could potential pass mike mansfield, but it's the first time he's