Senate Democrats on Sunday said they were unsure if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would remain in his leadership post beyond this Congress, after his recent and highly publicized medical episode sparked discussions about his political future.
McConnell, 81, has been projecting normalcy since Wednesday's incident, when he suddenly froze mid-sentence while speaking to reporters and looked ahead with an apparent blank stare for 18-seconds.The GOP leader later told his colleagues that his doctors had warned he could experience light-headedness as a result of injuries sustained during his March fall, which took place at a Washington, D.C., hotel.
Asked if he expected the octogenarian to be able to keep control of his conference, the Delaware senator replied,"I feel like he’s going to continue to be the Republican leader through the rest of this Congress. And what happens after that? I don’t know." "No question I have a lot of disagreements with Mitch McConnell, but he has been one of the more effective leaders of the Republican Conference in my lifetime. And I expect that that will probably continue, at least until the end of this term," Murphy continued.
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