Kentucky Governor Urges McConnell to Provide a Health Update
GOP lawmakers insist McConnell is ‘fully engaged’
In an effort to reassure the public amid relative silence from McConnell’s camp, several prominent Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators have said that they spoke with McConnell, describing him as alert.
“I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital,” conservative commentator Scott Jennings said on X on Tuesday. “We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history.”
Kate Cooksey Noyes, a spokesperson for Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, also shared that Barrasso spoke with McConnell in a “lengthy conversation.”
“Senator McConnell was fully engaged and is eager to get back to the Senate,” she said.
McConnell’s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, replied to inquiries about her husband’s condition on Tuesday—while responding to criticism about her choice to remain abroad during his health crisis. She told local news in Kentucky that his “health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S.” while she was on what she described as a “long-planned trip to China.”
