{"id":2023626,"date":"2023-09-06T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defiant-mcconnell-swats-away-health-concerns-i-will-finish-my-term-as-leader\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:09:11","slug":"defiant-mcconnell-swats-away-health-concerns-i-will-finish-my-term-as-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defiant-mcconnell-swats-away-health-concerns-i-will-finish-my-term-as-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell dismisses health worries: &#8216;I&#8217;ll complete my leadership term&#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\">18<\/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%2Fdefiant-mcconnell-swats-away-health-concerns-i-will-finish-my-term-as-leader%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=2023626&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 HEALTH \u2064EPISODES LOOM OVER SENATE RETURN TO \u2064WASHINGTON<\/h2>\n<p>Senate Minority \u2062Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confidently \u2063addressed concerns about his health and ability to fulfill his leadership \u2062duties during his first <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> since his \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defiant-mcconnell-swats-away-health-concerns-i-will-finish-my-term-as-leader\/\" title=\"McConnell dismisses health worries: 'I'll complete my leadership term'\">recent medical \u2062episodes<\/a>. Despite the flurry\u2063 of questions, McConnell projected a sense of normalcy and dismissed any doubts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What the doctor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-intel-warns-china-is-advancing-military-power-sharing-propaganda\/\" title=\"U.S. Intel warns China is advancing military power, sharing propaganda\">report addressed<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-announces-end-to-ad-selling-based-on-individual-web-browsing\/\" title=\"Google Announces End To Ad-Selling Based On Individual Web Browsing\">concerns people<\/a> might have of some things that happened\u200d to me\u2063 did happen well they didn&#8217;t.\u2062 I have nothing to add to that,&#8221;\u2063 McConnell said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McConnell referred to\u200d a letter from Dr. \u200cBrian Monahan, the Capitol&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-extends-remote-voting-period-for-house-lawmakers-citing-pandemic\/\" title=\"Pelosi Extends Remote-Voting Period For House Lawmakers, Citing Pandemic\">attending physician<\/a>, which \u200dcleared him for work. The letter stated that there was &#8220;no\u200d evidence&#8221; of a stroke, TIA, or movement\u200d disorder such as Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will finish my term\u2062 as leader and I will finish my Senate term,&#8221; McConnell\u200c confidently declared.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to read\u200c the full article from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>press conference, but he confidently dismissed any concerns, assuring that he is fit to continue serving as Senate Minority Leader. Despite the attention surrounding his recent medical episodes, McConnell remains focused on his leadership duties as the Senate returns to Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023628,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2023626","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}