Mitch McConnell won his first senatorial race in 1984, making it hard for millennials to remember a time before he was on the national political stage. That's a long tenure, and over the decades, McConnell has changed as a politician . Things have also changed for the senator in his personal life. Four years before McConnell was first elected, he and his first wife, Sherrill Redmon, divorced. By the 1990s, McConnell met Elaine Chao, who would become his second wife. "We met in the old-fashioned way. We were introduced through family friends," Chao told KET . Although Chao had a positive first impression of McConnell, a romantic relationship wasn't necessarily a forgone conclusion. "I don't want to say that sparks flew," Stuart Bloch, who helped introduce the pair, later recalled to

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