Exclusive: Senate Minority Leader McConnell tripped and fell while disembarking from a plane at Reagan National Airport earlier this month, according to two sources familiar with the incident.
McConnell’s nearly 20-second freeze during a news conference Wednesday renewed concerns about his overall health after the concussion.
“He’s definitely slower with his gait,” said a Republican senator who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. In closed-door GOP meetings, “he doesn’t address it,” the senator said, referring to health issues.McConnell, who told reporters he was “fine” after his freeze-up Wednesday, spoke with President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after the incident.
“The president called to check on me. I told him I got sandbagged,” McConnell joked to reporters, an apparent reference toMcCarthy, R-Calif., said that he spoke to McConnell in a regularly scheduled meeting and that there were “no concerns about his health in the meeting.” Asked whether he has personally witnessed anything behind the scenes to suggest McConnell cannot run the GOP conference, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a trusted McConnell lieutenant and adviser, replied: “He’s as sharp as he ever was.”
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