{"id":3886,"date":"2026-07-20T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:10:57","slug":"dem-faces-revolt-over-mcconnell-health-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"Dem Faces Revolt Over McConnell Health Standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is facing backlash from within his own party for not being more aggressive on replacing former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as questions swirl about his health.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3884\">Soldiers Killed in Trump\u2019s War Identified as Death Toll Mounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McConnell was taken to the hospital on June 14, but his Senate office did not say anything about his health for several weeks.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After much speculation about his condition, the update from McConnell claimed that he did not suffer \u201ca heart attack or a stroke,\u201d despite a 911 call mentioning cardiac arrest at his residence the day he was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said he was taken to the hospital after a fall and was \u201cbriefly unconscious,\u201d adding that he subsequently \u201chad to deal with a mild case of pneumonia\u201d while recovering, attaching a picture of himself holding the day\u2019s newspaper alongside his wife, Elaine Chao.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Beshear, 48, has said that McConnell\u2019s office has not been in regular communication with him, saying last week he had even been under the impression that the 84-year-old senator had died. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell. In fact, I\u2019d gotten two calls from different agencies\u2014not state agencies\u2014suggesting he\u2019s passed,\u201d Beshear said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky law gives the governor the authority to immediately call a special election when a sitting senator dies, prompting several Democratic figures to call on Beshear to get a concrete answer on McConnell\u2019s health\u2014or just call a special election if he cannot. <\/p>\n<p>Progressive podcaster Jennifer Welch said that Beshear should simply call a special election unless he sees tangible evidence that McConnell is alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the situation were reversed, I think Beshear just needs to go ahead and run the special election,\u201d Welch said on her podcast <i>IHIP News<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the governor should say, \u201cWe haven\u2019t heard from him\u2026This proof-of-life hostage photograph doesn\u2019t work. I haven\u2019t heard from him; I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s all there. And so, he hasn\u2019t called me to prove this; he hasn\u2019t made anything available for me to prove this. So I\u2019m going to run the special election. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3883\">Secret Trump Plot to Fast-Track His \u2018Monstrosity\u2019 Exposed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what Mitch would do,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Other commentators have expressed outrage with Beshear, who is rumored to be mulling a 2028 presidential run, for not being more aggressive on McConnell\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Beshear\u2019s unwillingness to push on this shows he is not the fighter Dems need for the White House run in \u201928,\u201d Democratic commentator Adam Cochran said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same walking on eggshells that gave us Merrick Garland,\u201d he said, in reference to McConnell indefinitely stalling on Garland\u2019s appointment to the Supreme Court, effectively snubbing former President Barack Obama of another appointment to the high court. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he can\u2019t push on McConnell\u2019s health, then why would we think he has the drive to go after Trump cronies, to root out the corruption&#8230; and to fight to prosecute those who aided foreign interference,\u201d he continued. \u201cI actually thought he was a strong wildcard pick with potential for the \u201928 ticket. Not top of my list, but not bottom either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast has reached out to Beshear\u2019s office for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a controversial law two years ago that changed the rules for filling a Senate vacancy before the end of a term. <\/p>\n<p>State law now requires that a special election be held immediately if a sitting senator dies, altering the previous law, which gave the governor the power to appoint someone to the seat until the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Before his prolonged hospitalization, McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in U.S. history, said he would not be seeking reelection to the upper chamber in the 2026 midterm elections. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>His final months in office have been plagued by a series of health scares and injuries, including medical episodes in which he froze and stopped talking on camera mid-sentence, several falls in the halls of Congress, a broken wrist, and, at several points, the need to use a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3881\">Sculptor Fumes as His $100K Charlie Kirk Statue Gets Snubbed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is facing backlash from within his own party for not being more aggressive on replacing former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as questions swirl about his health. Read more Soldiers Killed in Trump\u2019s War Identified as Death Toll Mounts McConnell was taken to the hospital on June 14, but his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dem Faces Revolt Over McConnell Health Standoff - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3886\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dem Faces Revolt Over McConnell Health Standoff - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Democratic Kentucky Gov. 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