{"id":27048,"date":"2026-08-04T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=27048"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:07:35","slug":"everything-to-know-about-mitch-mcconnells-wife-elaine-chao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=27048","title":{"rendered":"Everything to Know About Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Wife Elaine Chao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.radaronline.com\/brand-img\/0-WZjfVvJ\/0x0\/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-1785781473623.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>McConnell welcomed three <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/t\/kids\/\">daughters<\/a> \u2013 Elly, Claire and Porter \u2013 during his marriage to Redmon. However, he does not have children with Chao, despite her being family-oriented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try not to have too many regrets,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/06\/politics\/elaine-chao-badass-women-of-washington\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a> of their decision not to expand their family. &#8220;But I will say to young women, you know, when in my generation, we were taught that we can have it all. And so it was thought, well, you have a career. And then you would, you know, have your family and, well, there&#8217;d be no problem. Well, it doesn&#8217;t work like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chao explained, &#8220;So I try to counsel young women that they will have to be, regardless as to whether they want it or not, there are tradeoffs and sacrifices in life. And it&#8217;s important to know when those points occur because it would be a regret if you didn&#8217;t know you were making that tradeoff and it happened. And there was no chance to go back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell welcomed three daughters \u2013 Elly, Claire and Porter \u2013 during his marriage to Redmon. However, he does not have children with Chao, despite her being family-oriented. &#8220;I try not to have too many regrets,&#8221; she told CNN of their decision not to expand their family. &#8220;But I will say to young women, you know,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.radaronline.com\/brand-img\/0-WZjfVvJ\/1200x628\/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-1785781473623.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}