It has been decades since there was any real uncertainty at the top of the Republican Party in the Senate. But Senator Mitch McConnell’s alarming freeze-up at a news conference on Wednesday at the Capitol, as well as new disclosures about other recent falls, have shaken his colleagues and intensified quiet discussion about how long…
Senator Mitch McConnell, the longtime Republican leader who had a serious head injury in a fall earlier this year, froze midsentence during an appearance at his weekly news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday and was briefly escorted away from the microphones to recover. In what seemed to be a medical episode, Mr. McConnell, 81,…
Mr. Cameron, a former aide to Mr. McConnell, was expected to cruise to the nomination on the back of his ties to the powerful Senate minority leader and to Mr. Trump. But the race tightened after Ms. Craft, who is married to a coal billionaire, Joe Craft, began pouring millions of her own money into…
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader who suffered a concussion in a serious fall earlier this month, was released from inpatient rehabilitation on Saturday, according to a statement he released Saturday evening. “I want to sincerely thank everyone for all the kind wishes,” Mr. McConnell said in the statement. “I’m…
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, was hospitalized on Wednesday after tripping at a hotel in Washington, D.C., his spokesman said. “This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner,” the spokesman, David Popp, said in a brief statement early Thursday morning. “He has been admitted to the hospital,…
Back in August, an interviewer stumped Mitch Daniels, a Republican star of yesteryear who is stepping down at the end of this month as president of Purdue University, with a question about how he might fare in the flame-throwing partisan warfare of today. “Can your brand of conservatism still win in the current environment?” Adam…