This is how much you should trust Mitch on Social Security Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, handing Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes yet another golden issue in her campaign to thwart McConnell's sixth term in the U.S. Senate during a Thursday speech at the Louisville Rotary Club: Though he hasn’t mentioned it much on the campaign trail over the past year, McConnell specifically touted his effort to push President George W.