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Mitch McConnell has not been seen in more than two months, and while some Republicans have claimed to have spoken to the 84-year-old senator, the people of Kentucky have been left in the dark. <\/p>\n

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Democrat Charles Booker, who is running to fill McConnell\u2019s Senate seat, is not buying Republican claims that they\u2019ve spoken to the senator since he was rushed to the hospital on June 14. <\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Whip John Barrasso, and conservative commentator Scott Jennings have all insisted they\u2019ve had calls with McConnell, during which they\u2019ve talked policy. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIn an age where every time we turn on the news, there\u2019s lies, we\u2019re in an age of politics where dishonesty is the norm, and the lack of transparency is to be expected,\u201d Booker told the Daily Beast on Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s why a lot of people don\u2019t trust politics, so no, I do not believe them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMitch McConnell has been known to lie to our people here in Kentucky and the country throughout his career,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

McConnell\u2019s team has put out two photos since the senator disappeared. While he is allegedly holding calls with GOP allies and working with staff, he has not called any news outlets or released any videos reassuring the people of Kentucky about his recovery. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of deep, deep frustration. Kentuckians, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike are offended at this point,\u201d Booker said of what he\u2019s hearing on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been very consistent in saying that this is not about attacking Mitch McConnell because he had a health emergency. We know how serious that is, but it\u2019s the secrecy. It\u2019s the dishonesty. It\u2019s the odd vagueness and the contradictions his team has presented that it was a mild fall with no real complications and then a mild case of pneumonia, which does not add up,\u201d Booker said. <\/p>\n

Booker said that Kentuckians are used to being \u201cscrewed over by Mitch McConnell, and this just feels like another way to punch us on the way out, and to tell Kentuckians that he doesn\u2019t care about us.\u201d<\/p>\n

McConnell is not running for reelection at the end of his six-year term, leaving the race for the seat open for the first time in more than 40 years since he first took office in January 1985. <\/p>\n

\u201cMitch McConnell needs to speak directly to the people,\u201d Booker said. \u201cIf he\u2019s supposedly talking to all these Republican leaders, 20-plus minute conversations, he can talk to the people of Kentucky, and it should be, if not in person, certainly a video that is verified.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Booker secured the Democratic nomination and will face off against GOP Rep. Andy Barr in November. Barr claimed to have spoken to McConnell at the end of July after previously saying they had texted. <\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s playing a lot of politics at a moment that Kentuckians really do need accountability regardless of party,\u201d Booker slammed Barr while accusing him of remaining largely silent on the issue. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, this is not about party politics. Democrats, Republicans, Independents. Even if you did not vote for Mitch McConnell, he has been elected to represent Kentucky, and if he is unable to do it, people should know,\u201d Booker said. <\/p>\n

The Daily Beast reached out to Barr\u2019s campaign and office about McConnell\u2019s now two-month absence but did not receive a response. <\/p>\n

While Kentucky has a Democratic governor, and reelected Gov. Andy Beshear in 2023, it has elected Republican senators for decades. GOP Senator Rand Paul beat Booker by 23 points in 2022, but the Democratic Senate hopeful believes McConnell\u2019s vanishing act has changed the dynamic in 2026. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it has put a bright light on the race in general,\u201d Booker said. \u201cIt is sending a clear message to people across Kentucky and across the country that this is an open seat.\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s arguing it\u2019s an opportunity for the state to do something different and that McConnell and his team reflect a lack of accountability. <\/p>\n

While McConnell has been absent for two months, his team has released fewer than a handful of statements. Most recently, they released one on August 6, attributed to McConnell, saying he had left the rehab center and was continuing his recovery at home, where he would do his physical therapy and keep working with staff. <\/p>\n

However, his staffers, including his longtime chief of staff Terry Carmack, who makes an annual salary of more than $226,000 a year, have refused to answer questions about McConnell\u2019s status when confronted in the halls of the U.S. Capitol and outside the senator\u2019s Washington, D.C. home. <\/p>\n

The Daily Beast\u2019s inquiry about McConnell\u2019s progress and whether he would be able to travel back to Kentucky at all during the Senate\u2019s August recess or expected to be recovered enough to return to the halls of Congress when the Senate returned in mid-September went unanswered on Friday. <\/p>\n

Beshear said on Friday that he has received \u201cabsolutely nothing\u201d from McConnell, despite repeatedly calling for transparency and sending letters to the senator and his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why the Senate feels broken. These guys don\u2019t think that they have a boss when the people of Kentucky are their boss,\u201d Beshear said on MS NOW. \u201cThey don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re accountable whatsoever. It\u2019s Mitch McConnell not showing up for work for two months and refusing to call into one news show or create one video for the constituents that he\u2019s supposed to serve.\u201d <\/p>\n

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