FILE - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber after leading the impeachment acquittal of President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, on Feb. 5, 2020. Kentucky's Republican Party, already dominant in electing candidates, has achieved another long-sought goal, overtaking the Democratic Party in statewide voter registration, according to numbers released by the Kentucky State Board of Elections on Friday, July 15, 2022. McConnell, regarded as the main architect of the GOP's rise in Kentucky, said his party's voter registration supremacy in his home state was “a day I never thought would happen.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)