Top Republican McConnell hospitalized after fall
Washington The leader of the faction republican in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, suffered a concussion in a fall. The 81-year-old was taken to a hospital, where he will be observed and treated for a few days, according to a spokesman on Thursday. McConnell thanks his colleagues for their recovery wishes, spokesman David Popp said. His office did not provide any further details about his health. US President Joe Biden tweeted McConnell ‘speedy recovery’.
McConnell’s spokesman, Doug Andres, previously said the group leader was at a private dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Washington hotel — the former Trump International Hotel — on Wednesday (local time) when he tripped. McConnell fell at his home in Kentucky in 2019, injuring his shoulder. At that time he had to undergo an operation.
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The one considered taciturn republican does not like to comment on his private life. At the beginning of the corona pandemic, however, he reported on his fight against polio as a child. At the time, his mother insisted that he stay on his feet despite the illness and imposed a strict therapy program on him. Even as an adult, however, McConnell admitted that he still had trouble climbing stairs.
He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, representing Kentucky. In January, McConnell became the longest-serving group leader in the House of Representatives when the new Congress met. Recently, some members of the Senate were absent due to illness. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who turns 90 in June, was hospitalized last week with shingles. Your party colleague John Fetterman suffered a stroke during the election campaign last year and is currently being treated for depression.
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