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What’s Going on With Mitch McConnell? Kentucky’s Governor Has Questions.
Are you there, Senator McConnell? It’s me, Governor Beshear.
More than six weeks after Senator Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader from Kentucky, entered the hospital and vanished from public life, the state’s ambitious Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, sent him a letter.
“I am addressing this letter to Senator McConnell under the assumption that he is capable of reading and responding verbally, and not incapacitated by means of consciousness or cognition,” the governor began. He went on to call on Mr. McConnell to “directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.”
With his request for proof of life, Mr. Beshear, 48, was seizing on — and stoking — the frenzied speculation that has swirled on both the left and the far right ever since Mr. McConnell, 84, was hospitalized in mid-June.