Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze for about 30 seconds on Wednesday while speaking with reporters after a speech in Covington, Kentucky.
The incident is similar to an episode McConnell experienced at the US Capitol late last month and is likely to raise additional questions about the fitness of the 81-year-old to lead the Senate Republican caucus.
Wednesday’s episode occurred when a reporter asked the Republican leader if he was planning to run for reelection in 2026. McConnell had to ask him to repeat the question several times, chuckled for a moment, and then paused.
Someone at his side then asked him, “Did you hear the question, senator, running for reelection in 2026?” McConnell did not respond.
Article includes video of the incident.
They’re seriously going to let this man stroke his brain to swiss cheese, for what? To save what little is left of the GOP?
And these are just the ones he’s having in public.
I’m convinced Glitch McConnel is to GOP what Tito was to Yugoslavia. After he’s gone, what he once held together will tear itself apart from the inside.
Glitch McConnell has me wheezing
Don’t compare this guy to glitches. Glitches have the potential to be beautiful anomalies, and bring the possibility for creativity, personality, and humour in life to otherwise rigid and unyielding systems.
This guy is the rigid and unyielding system. And though I’m not American, it seems his works are anything but beautiful.
Chewing up things and spitting them out is kind of the gops thing. The only ppl shocked are the GOP ppl it happens to.
Not Mitch, though. He’s jelly between the ears now.