Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to return to the U.S. Capitol this week following a second instance of freezing up in public, as his health issues have stirred talk of whether he should step aside from leadership.
Fellow GOP Senate leaders have so far remained publicly supportive of his leadership, but other Republicans have questioned whether he should relinquish his post.
“There’s a lot of folks out there who would like to see him go, but that’s because he’s a very capable leader. He’s one of these kind of guys that if you can take him out of the leadership role in advance, you might end up in a better position if you were a competitor of his,” Mr. Rounds told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” He also said that “on the Republican side, we all understand that he’s good, he’s good for our party.”Mr.
The list includes Minority Whip John Thune, 62, of South Dakota, who is the number-two Republican; GOP Conference Chair John Barrasso, 71, of Wyoming; former GOP Whip John Cornyn, 71, of Texas; Conference Vice Chair Shelly Moore Capito, 69, of West Virginia; and Conference Policy Chair Joni Ernst, 53, of Iowa.“They spoke, and the leader sounded like his usual self and was in good spirits,” Ryan Wrasse, a spokesman for Mr. Thune, told The Washington Times.
In July, Mr. McConnell froze up while answering reporters’ questions in the Capitol. He was led away but returned moments later and finished the press conference.Mr. Scott, who is running for a second term in the Senate, told CBS last week, “I expect he’ll continue to be the Republican leader through this term. … We’ll have another election after the 2024 elections.”
If he were to leave Congress early, a new state law requires the governor to choose a successor from the same party as the departing senator. Television medical pundits speculated a variety of causes for his freezing up, including lasting effects of the concussion and even later-stage Parkinson’s disease.
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