Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell brushed aside concerns about his health Wednesday and said he would continue as party leader through the 2024 elections. “I will finish my term as leader, and I will finish my Senate term,” McConnell told reporters Wednesday. His leadership term runs through the end of 2024 and his Senate term through 2026. The 81-year-old senator froze twice at public appearances in the last two months, including for about 30 seconds while speaking with reporters in Kentucky last week, raising concerns about his capacity to lead...

McConnell tries to shift Senate focus from his health to spending Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tried to end questions about his health and political future on Wednesday as the Senate prepares for a busy month of negotiations on federal spending. Reporters repeatedly asked McConnell to provide specific details of what has caused two incidents where the GOP leader froze at public events in the past two months. McConnell did not answer those questions directly, instead referring reporters to a recent letter from the attending physician of the U.S....

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Wednesday vowed to finish his term in office, brushing off questions about his health after he froze up in public twice this summer. "I'm going to finish my term as leader and I'm going to finish my Senate term," McConnell told reporters at the U.S. Capitol. The 81-year-old leader said he had no announcements to make about retiring from the Senate. On two separate occasions this summer, McConnell briefly froze up and lost the ability to speak during press events. In the second...

Sen. Mitch McConnell said he would stay on as Senate minority leader and finish out his term in Congress during his first press conference Wednesday after he froze in front of reporters last week for the second time in less than two months. “I have no announcements to make on that subject,” McConnell said when asked if he would retire any time soon, adding “I am going to finish my term as leader, and I’m going to finish my Senate term,” which expires at the end of 2026; his term...

Whatever Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would have you believe about his recovery following a concussion, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ain't buying it. “The last freeze-up, it puts a question in everybody’s mind whether he can do it or not,” Tuberville told The Wall Street Journal regarding McConnell's latest freezing episode, adding that “if he freezes up again, he obviously knows that everybody else is going to have to get involved in this.” McConnell, who has had two such episodes during press conferences in the past month, reportedly plans...

When Donald Trump was found to be in “excellent health” and (just barely) below the obesity threshold back in 2018, Republican elected officials were not interested in questioning then-White House physician Ronny Jackson’s findings. Mitch McConnell probably hoped the same would be true on Tuesday when he released a letter from Brian Monahan, the Capitol Hill attending physician, regarding two times he inexplicably froze while addressing reporters this summer.

PROBABLY NEWS TO TRUMP’S LAWYERS — On HUGH HEWITT’s show today, DONALD TRUMP said he will testify at his trial: “Oh, yes, absolutely.” (h/t Philip Wegmann) HAPPENING NOW — The first televised hearing of Trump’s election interference case in Georgia is underway. Fulton County Superior Court Judge SCOTT McAFEE will hear requests filed by former Trump lawyers SIDNEY POWELL and KENNETH CHESEBRO to sever their cases from the other 17 defendants. The hearing comes a day after Chesebro’s attorney requested McAfee to drop him from the RICO indictment and a...

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is not buying what the Capitol doctor is selling when it comes to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) following two instances of seizing up, calling them “neurological events.” According to the Capitol physician, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with McConnell. He was simply dehydrated. A claim that no one is buying. “My examination of you following your August 30, 2023 brief episode included several medical evaluations: brain MRI imaging, EEG study and consultations with several neurologists for a comprehensive neurology assessment,” Dr. Brian P.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has questioned the credibility of a doctor’s notes asserting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in good health, according to comments reported by Politico on Tuesday. McConnell, age 81, has faced several public health scares in 2023, the most recent being when he froze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky on Aug. 30. Paul, a physician and ophthalmologist, suggested that McConnell is suffering from a neurological issue, even as the Attending Physician of Congress has denied that McConnell’s freeze was prompted by serious...