{"id":1983762,"date":"2023-07-26T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-responds-after-alarming-episode-during-press-conference-i-got-sandbagged\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T02:24:12","slug":"mcconnell-responds-after-alarming-episode-during-press-conference-i-got-sandbagged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-responds-after-alarming-episode-during-press-conference-i-got-sandbagged\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell reacts to unsettling incident: &#8216;I was caught off guard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-responds-after-alarming-episode-during-press-conference-i-got-sandbagged%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>McConnell Responds After\u200c Alarming Episode During\u200b Press Conference: &#8216;I Got Sandbagged&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell \u2063is apparently trying to brush aside concerns about his health after a\u200c bizarre episode Wednesday in which he froze mid-sentence during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Trump Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline 'Viable Path to Victory'\">news conference<\/a> \u2063and had to be led\u200d away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m fine,\u201d the longtime Kentucky senator told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/26\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-press-conference\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> after being asked whether the incident was related to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/extent-mitch-mcconnells-injuries-revealed-expected-remain-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concussion<\/a> he sustained\u2063 in a fall earlier this\u2064 year.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell had been speaking at \u200cthe Senate Republican leadership news briefing\u200c regarding the proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservative-senators-push-restrict-transgenders-military-service-drag-shows-bases-lgbt-activist-fuming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">military spending<\/a> bill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on\u200c a path to finishing the <strong>National Defense Authorization \u2064Act<\/strong>,\u201d McConnell said in opening his remarks. \u201cThis week has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-leaves-news-conference-after-freezing-mid-sentence\/\" title=\"McConnell abruptly exits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a>, halting his speech.&#8221;>good bipartisan cooperation<\/a> and a string of a\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued to\u2063 stand at the\u200c microphone, mouth \u2062pressed closed, his body weaving slightly as\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-responds-after-alarming-episode-during-press-conference-i-got-sandbagged\/\" title=\"McConnell reacts to unsettling incident: 'I was caught off guard'\">awkward silence grew longer<\/a> and longer. Finally, associates approached and asked if he was all \u200cright\u200c and suggested he go back to his office.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, still\u200b silent, turned and started to shuffle \u2063away.<\/p>\n<p>He later returned and responded to a reporter\u2019s \u2063question that \u2064he was \u201cfine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporter followed up,\u2063 \u201cYou\u2019re fine? You\u2019re fully able to\u2064 do your job?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d McConnell replied.<\/p>\n<p>CNN quoted a McConnell aide \u2062as saying the 81-year-old senator\u2063 \u201cfelt\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/united-flight-diverted-medical-emergency-something-bad-happening-crew-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">light headed <\/a>and stepped away \u200dfor a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the aide hastened to \u200cadd, \u201cHe came back to handle Q and A, which as everyone observed was sharp,\u201d the aide said.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up video posted to social media by Scripps News Service correspondent Nathaniel Reed, McConnell\u200b seemed to have\u2064 recovered.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SENATE \u200cMINORITY LEADER MCCONNELL: \u201cThe President called to check up on\u2064 me and I told\u2062 him I got\u2064 sandbagged\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell doesn\u2019t\u2063 answer questions\u200b about what \u2063happened, just says \u201cI\u2019m fine\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cm8tvoiLIH\">pic.twitter.com\/cm8tvoiLIH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathaniel Reed\u200d (@ReedReports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReedReports\/status\/1684338097071300608?\">July \u200b26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He\u200b even cracked a joke, saying, \u201cThe President\u2063 called to check up on me and I told him I got sandbagged.\u201d He may have been using the definition \u200dof the word \u200d\u201csandbagged,\u201d as in hit\u2063 or stunned, \u2063as if with \u2063a \u2064sandbag, or he may\u200d have\u2062 been referring to a recent incident \u2064when \u200dPresident Joe Biden tripped over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-injured-shortly-nasty-fall-air-force-commencement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sandbag<\/a> on a stage and \u2063fell down during commencement exercises at the U.S. Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell disregarded a reporter\u2019s question\u200c about whether he had seen a doctor since the incident, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/07\/26\/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fine. That\u2019s the important part,\u201d McConnell responded.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, elected \u2063in 1984, is \u2064the longest-serving Kentucky \u2062senator, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/03\/mitch-mcconnell-senate-longest-serving-leader-00076161#:~:text=The%20chamber's%20minority%20leader%20officially,of%20the%20new%20Congress%20Tuesday.&#038;text=Mitch%20McConnell%20officially%20broke%20the,serving%20Senate%20leader%20on%20Tuesday.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is up for re-election in 2026, CNN\u2062 reported, but he \u201chas repeatedly declined to say\u200d if he will run for another term or try\u2063 to run for GOP leader again in the next\u2063 Congress, which begins in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mcconnell-responds-alarming-episode-press-conference-got-sandbagged\/\">McConnell Responds After Alarming Episode During Press Conference: &#8216;I Got Sandbagged&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell downplayed concerns about his health following a strange incident during a news conference. Freezing mid-sentence, he was led away but assured CNN that he was fine and denied any connection to a concussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":1983763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}