Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell brushed aside concerns about his freeze-up episodes and declined to elaborate on what happened Wednesday.
“I’m going to finish my term as leader and I’m going to finish my Senate term,” McConnell defiantly declared before departing the press conference.
McConnell’s question-and-answer with the congressional press corps lasted just under two minutes and followed a lengthier Senate GOP update to the public on their agenda.McConnell firstHe again grew stone-faced and while addressing a reporter’s question about whether he intends to vie for re-election in 2024 in Covington, Ky., near Cincinnati.The Senate minority leader’s public freezing up on July 26 spooked the beltway.“Occasional lightheadedness is not uncommon in concussion recovery and can also be expected as a result of dehydration,” the doctor noted last week.after falling during a fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, DC. He was sidelined from Senate chambers for weeks as a result.
“When you get dehydrated you don’t have moments when your eyes look in the distance with a vacant look and you’re sort of basically unconscious with your eyes open. That’s not a symptom of dehydration,” he said,Medical experts have suggested to The Post that a partial seizure could explain McConnell’s health snafus.McConnell’s aides have emphasized that he was lucid after both public bouts of verbal paralysis and insisted that he was merely feeling light-headed.In July, Sen.
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