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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell hasn't been seen publicly for nearly six weeks since a fall, raising questions about his fitness. Aides dropped new claims about the vanished senator.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell hasn't been seen publicly for nearly six weeks since a fall. His office dropped new claims about him periodically, but McConnell himself never appeared to confirm he was fine. The absence created a vacuum in Republican leadership without clear explanation.
A six-week absence from a party leader during normal governing doesn't happen without something being seriously wrong. McConnell's aides providing occasional updates instead of him appearing himself suggests either he's unable to or there's a deliberate strategy to manage information. Either way, the Republican Party's institutional leadership became opaque — nobody outside his inner circle knew his actual condition.
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