Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Demands Answers About Mitch McConnell
We deserve answers.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) wants answers about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) health.
The 84-year-old senator has been in the hospital for almost four weeks. His office hasn’t provided any details.
“Over the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the health and well-being of Sen. McConnell. As Governor – and a fellow public official who understands the commitment we’ve made to the people we serve – I am requesting the Senator provide an update on his current health status,” said Gov. Beshear. “Allowing speculation to continue in the media is not fair to the Senator or to Kentuckians, and my hope is that this provides him the opportunity to share the information in a transparent manner, direct from the source. I wish him a safe and speedy recovery.”
McConnell entered the hospital on June 14.
Independent journalist Desiree Townsend reported on July 1 that 911 received a phone call about an “unconscious” person at McConnell’s residence. From CNN:
McConnell’s name is not mentioned in the recording, but the address that paramedics responded to is known to be his address. CNN has not confirmed the details of what dispatchers and medics described in the audio.
The same day as this call, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican and former Senate majority leader was hospitalized. His office has not disclosed the medical reason for the hospitalization.
At the time, a McConnell spokesperson said he “is receiving excellent care.”
McConnell’s office repeated the same statement to CNBC on Tuesday, and the senator “appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”
“The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session,” added the office to CNBC.
Lara Loomer claimed a high-level source told her that McConnell “is officially brain dead.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) have disputed such news, saying they’ve spoken “with McConnell at length in recent days.”
Reporter Scott Jennings also said he spoke to McConnell:
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. 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. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. 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…
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 7, 2026
You know, if McConnell can hold these long, detailed conversations with people, then his office can provide them with a specific update.
After everything we went through with President Joe Biden, we deserve to know what is going on regarding the health of our representatives, especially their constituents.
It doesn’t help that McConnell has had numerous health issues over the past few years:
- March 2023: McConnell suffered concussion in fall, will remain hospitalized for several days
- July 2023: McConnell Claims He’s ‘Fine’ After Freezing and Appearing Unwell at Press Conference
- August 2023: For the Second Time, McConnell Appears to Freeze and Lose Ability to Speak
- December 2024: Sen. McConnell Trips, Sprains Wrist After Fall During GOP Lunch
- February 2025: Mitch McConnell Fell Down Stairs After Senate Vote
- October 2025: Sen. Mitch McConnell Falls in Senate Office Basement
- February 2026: Mitch McConnell released from hospital more than a week after experiencing “flu-like symptoms”
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So a bunch of Republicans claim to have spoken at length with McConnell and report that he’s “sharp as a tack.”
Excuse me while I go get another one of them “safe and effective” boosters.
Well, Biden was sharp as a tack too, so perhaps that expression doesn’t mean what we think it means.
Biden was never as sharp as a tack. Never. Not even in his 20s.
that’s what was being said about Biden
Brain dead.
Seems like it’s pretty hard to tell when it comes to politicians.
Fortunately, Kentucky is one of five States where a Senator is replaced by election and not by appointment by the governor; in this situation a Dem.
IF McConnell is brain dead there are some Republicans that need to be looking for a job.
Starting with Scott Jennings
Yeah, too bad, he was a shining light
McConnell has been functionally brain dead for a while now. All the hospital visit did was confirm it.
So, the DNC trots out Andy Behar to tout the party’s public-transparency demands as payback for criticism of Joe Biden. Got it.
Please tell me that typo was intentional. I love it.
Hey, Beshear —
if you want transparency, schedule him to a debate — LIKE WE HAD TO.
Did Beshear have his lil hands as fists and stomp his lil feet when demanding answers? Did he hold his breath? I just love it when progressives make demands,
If this was a DemoncRat, would Beshear make the same demand?
He’s out in November.
What’s the problem?
He isn’t a monarch. True, he has been worthless most of the time, bad some of the time and only a glimmer of good.
January not Nov but yeah only a few months from now. The problem, if any, may come after midterms in a ‘lame duck’ session if the GoP loses majority to push nominations through before the d/prog control the Senate. There’s a whole bunch of judicial vacancies and several Executive Branch positions with interim appointments needing confirmation.
And Thune is going to help get these judicial and cabinet appointments through?
Well …that’s a very good question. Much would depend on whether Trump gets around to submitting nominations for Judicial appointments, some of which have been vacant since before his inauguration in Jan 25. Hard to complain about lack of Senate confirmations without existing nominees.
I suspect Thune and a couple others would feel significant pressure from donors to at least get the Judicial nominations confirmed. All they need is an up/down vote and a 50/50 split with the VP breaking the tie. Getting the vote wouldn’t be that difficult, probably more difficult to move them through committee due to timeline. Could probably get agreement to a slate of nominees on one vote the same way the Senate confirms SR Military Officers BUT I highly doubt the Senate would agree to skip or even skimp on the timeline for committee nomination process.
They are keeping him in Limbo until a special election is no longer possible.
McConnell is being given the Francisco Franco protocol. His wife jetting to China for high level meetings is all that is needed to know what the Turtle has done and allowed.
He is communicating by varying his suction on the transparent apple juice straw.
I hear his catheter goes directly to a DOD burn bag.
Unfortunately there is no way to make him quit or resign.
Only two sure ways to exit without resignation:
1. Voted out at ballot box
2. Carried out in a casket
After reviewing the ring cam with Savanah Guthrie she recommended he demand proof of life.
It is fitting that his death is as farcical as is conservative politics and two faced leadership. I doubt, this side of heaven, we will ever properly appreciate the damage this man has done to the cause of conservatism in America.
As a Kentuckian, I hate them both. King Andy may not be wrong in this case, but he’s owed nothing from any Republican.
Beshear’s actions are nothing more than kabuki.
I missed the part in the US Constitution where a US Senator has to say anything at all to the governor of that state. Could one of the legal eagles here tell me what section that provision is in?
Gov Beshear is:
(1) champing at the bit
(2) jumping the gun
(3) anticipating the command
(4) wishing he had a crystal ball
Everybody will drag their feet until the special election deadline, which is in early August. If they announce before that date, the thinking is Massie will run, and either win or the powers that be will have to spend another few hundred million to keep him from doing so.
My opinion of Scott Jennings WAS sky-high for a lot of reasons, especially taking on the CNN crew. I cannot believe he said this about McConnell. Just cannot – massive disappointment,.
Why? Do you seriously doubt that it’s the truth?! On what basis? Because Laura Loomer says so?! That’s insane.
This is the age of instant global communications inside everybody’s pocket.
If Turtle wanted to assure everybody he was well, he could do it in 10 seconds.
Instead, we have a college of cardinals reporting to us with colored smoke.
We have three trustworthy people telling us they had conversations with him. That’s more than enough to establish that he is not brain-dead.
Look, either Thune, Barasso, and Jennings are all publicly lying, about a matter that’s sure to come out if it isn’t true, or else Laura Loomer, already long established as a raving lunatic, is once again full of it. What kind of mind does it take to think that the first option is more likely than the second?
If he had these conversations then he is not brain dead. Dead people tell no tales, and do not discourse on anything. Therefore Loomer is full of it, as usual.
And no, we do NOT “deserve to know what is going on regarding the health of our representatives”. That is their business and their business alone. If he were seeking reelection, then he would have been well advised to reassure the voters of his fitness for an additional term. But he isn’t, so he doesn’t have to tell them anything at all.
Nor does he owe Beshear anything at all. He doesn’t represent Beshear; he represents the state, not any individual within it. Beshear can get a note if and when he dies.
After decades of watching how D’s handle such situations, I officially don’t care. Even if he is a vegetable.
I think my favorite was when they reanimated Diane Feinstein’s corpse and wheeled her into the Senate so the Lich could have her hand lifted to register a vote on some bill, after which she was never seen again.
KY has D Governor. McConnell isn’t running for re-election and his term is up at the end of this year. Better he officially still holds the position until a duly elected replacement is sworn in, rather than risk any chance at all that the KY Gov finds a way to get his own appointee seated.
We just lived through 4 full years of “Weekend at Biden’s”, with a brain dead POTUS that was never allowed to make a single decision in office of more import than which flavor of ice cream to eat next. At least with this turtle creature, no one is pretending that he is actually functioning as a Senator.
Once again, the KY governor doesn’t get to appoint jack*t in this procedure..
I am so cynical now that I wonder if the phone callers were talking to an AI generated Mitch. These were not in-person visits.
This. With any oddities in conversation explained by bad service in a hospital or the remnants of medical issues.
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