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This is the second time the senator has frozen during a speech. He had been hospitalized in March with a concussion.
The leader of the Republicans in the United States Senate Mitch McConnell on Wednesday aroused serious concerns about his health, being the victim of a long moment of absence in the middle of a press conference, for the second time in a month.
While traveling in his state of Kentucky, Senator McConnell, 81, seemed paralyzed for about 30 seconds, unable to answer a question from a reporter.
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Already hospitalized for a fall
He had just been questioned about his desire to run again in 2026. The Republican tenor had already experienced a very similar episode on July 26, freezing for no reason in the middle of a press conference at the Capitol, before his entourage told him. invites you to slip away. Asked about Mitch McConnell’s condition, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre wished him “a speedy recovery“.
Mitch McConnell, undisputed leader of the Republicans in the Senate since 2015, found himself in this capacity on the front line of the fight against the policies of the administration of the Democratic president barack obama (2009-2017), but also to support Donald Trump, who came to power in January 2017. In March, the senator was hospitalized after a fall during a private dinner, which had earned him a concussion, a broken rib and nearly six weeks off.