Mitch McConnell shuts down retirement speculation by announcing he’ll be BACK in the Senate on Monday — more than a month after he fell while dining at D.C.’s Walfdorf Astoria
- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shut down retirement rumors on Thursday
- He announced via Twitter that he would return to the Capitol on Monday
- McConnell has been gone since he tripped and fell during a dinner party at the Waldorf Astoria
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shut down retirement rumors on Thursday and announced on Twitter that he would return to Washington on Monday after recovering from a stumbling block he made last month.
On March 8, the 81-year-old top Senate Republican tripped and fell while attending a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel — Trump’s former residence — in downtown Washington, D.C.
He was hospitalized for several days with a concussion and “minor rib fracture,” doctors said, and continued his recovery in an inpatient rehabilitation facility.
He’s been out of the U.S. Senate for several weeks.
On Thursday, The Spectator reported McConnell’s Nos. 2 and 3, Senators John Thune and John Barrasso, as well as Senator John Cornyn, reached out to GOP senators to tell them to prepare for a leadership vote.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shut down retirement rumors on Thursday and announced on Twitter that he would return to Washington on Monday after recovering from a stumbling block he made last month
“I look forward to returning to the Senate on Monday,” McConnell wrote. “We have important business to do and big battles to win for Kentuckians and the American people.”
On March 8, the 81-year-old top Senate Republican tripped and fell while attending a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel — Trump’s former residence — in downtown Washington, D.C.
McConnell was previously challenged for the leadership post by Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott, whose bid fell through.
The vote was scheduled to take place after McConnell announced his retirement as leader and from the Senate as a whole.
Sources in McConnell’s orbit attributed that to DailyMail.com.
And on Twitter, the Republican from Kentucky announced that he would be returning to DC at the end of the current Easter break.
“I look forward to returning to the Senate on Monday,” McConnell wrote. “We have important business to do and big battles to win for Kentuckians and the American people.”
Democratic Senator John Fetterman, who reported to Walter Reed for clinical depression, is also expected to return to the Senate next week.
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is recovering from shingles, remains absent.
Some Democratic votes, including Rep. Ro Khanna, have urged that 89-year-old Feinstein step down.
Khanna, who is politically aligned with the Senator Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party, flirted with a Senate bid to replace Feinstein, but instead endorsed Rep. Barbara Lee for the Senate seat.
Others, including speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi, suggested such calls were sexist.
‘It’s interesting to me. I don’t know what political agendas are at work going after Senator Feinstein in that way. I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate like that,” Pelosi told CBS Thursday.
On Wednesday, Feinstein said she would allow Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily replace her on the Senate Judiciary Committee so Democrats can get their judicial nominations through the chamber.