“I’m not going anywhere” is how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) responded after Kentucky’s legislature passed a law that he supported requiring an appointment to a Kentucky Senate seat vacancy be from the same political party as the lawmaker who is departing. Because McConnell supported the measure, it drew speculation that the 79-year-old senator, who has been in office since the early 1980s, would leave early. “I don’t think we’re going to have a vacancy,” he told reporters in Kentucky on Tuesday, according to The Hill. “I just got elected to a six-year term. And I’m still the leader of my party in the Senate,” McConnell said. “But I had watched this over the years in the Senate as various vacancies were filled and I thought this was the best way to go,” he said. On Monday, the Kentucky legislature overcame a veto from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on the …