{"id":2024082,"date":"2023-09-06T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-he-will-finish-senate-term-after-freeze-up-scares\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T02:01:34","slug":"mcconnell-says-he-will-finish-senate-term-after-freeze-up-scares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-he-will-finish-senate-term-after-freeze-up-scares\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell to Complete Senate Term Despite Freeze-Up Scare"},"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\">16<\/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-says-he-will-finish-senate-term-after-freeze-up-scares%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=2024082&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>Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-KY) Commits to Finishing Term Despite \u200bHealth Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Amidst growing speculation about his health and calls for his resignation, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear that\u200d he has no plans to step \u2062down. Last week, McConnell experienced another \u200dfreeze-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-education-board-member-under-investigation-after-social-media-posts-about-schools-brainwashing-children\/\" title=\"Utah Education Board Member probed for criticizing schools' influence on children.\">raising \u2064concerns<\/a> about his ability to continue \u200cserving. However, the 81-year-old lawmaker dismissed these concerns during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-governor-shuts-down-plan-that-could-have-helped-trump-in-legal-battles\/\" title=\"GOP Governor Blocks Plan to Aid Trump in Legal Battles\">recent\u2063 press conference<\/a> on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going\u200c to \u200dfinish my term as leader. And \u2064I&#8217;m going to finish my Senate term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeaderMcConnell<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WI5tLZUPcT\">pic.twitter.com\/WI5tLZUPcT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Howard Mortman \u2063(@HowardMortman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HowardMortman\/status\/1699500084713418901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McConnell, whose term ends \u200bin January 2027, was previously hospitalized with a concussion\u200d in March \u200dafter a \u2062fall. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-warns-young-conservatives-to-pay-attention-to-topics-with-unapproved-words\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson cautions young conservatives about sensitive subjects with 'unauthorized language'.\">recent \u2063weeks<\/a>, \u2064he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-he-will-finish-senate-term-after-freeze-up-scares\/\" title=\"McConnell to Complete Senate Term Despite Freeze-Up Scare\">faced difficulties answering\u200d questions<\/a> and\u200c appeared to freeze \u200bduring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporters-fail-to-ask-psaki-or-biden-about-one-of-the-biggest-news-stories-in-the-u-s\/\" title=\"Reporters Fail To Ask Psaki Or Biden About One Of The Biggest News Stories In The U.S.\">press events<\/a>. However,\u200d McConnell&#8217;s attending physician, Dr. Brian Monahan, has stated that \u2064there is no \u200bevidence \u2064of a seizure\u2063 disorder or stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the medical\u200d reassurances, speculation about McConnell&#8217;s condition and future in Congress continues. However, \u2062Senator John Kennedy \u200c(R-LA) revealed that McConnell has received \u2064a\u2063 clean bill \u2063of health from medical experts and emphasized that only \u2062McConnell\u2063 himself\u200b has \u200bthe power to decide his\u2062 future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confirmed his commitment to serving out his term after experiencing a second freeze-up. Ignoring a reporter&#8217;s question about public opinion, the 81-year-old lawmaker stood alongside fellow GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2024083,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2024082","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}