U.S. Senate Republicans vote to keep McConnell as leader, spokesperson says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans, who failed to win control of the chamber in last week’s midterm elections, on Wednesday voted to keep Mitch McConnell as their caucus leader, a spokesperson said.

McConnell fended off a challenge by Senator Rick Scott, who had run the Republicans’ election organization.

(Reporting by Gram Slattery David Morgan; writing by Katharine Jackson; editing by Paul Grant)