The Republican leader was silent for more than 30 seconds after being asked if he will run for re-election. He froze at a news conference in July.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze again Wednesday, this time during a gaggle with reporters in Covington, Kentucky, stopping for more than 30 seconds after he was asked if he would run for re-election.

The Kentucky Republican froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going silent for 19 seconds before being escorted away from the cameras. McConnell, 81, returned shortly afterward and continued his news conference, telling reporters, “I’m fine.”

When it became apparent that McConnell had frozen again on Wednesday, an aide came up to him and asked, “Did you hear the question, senator?” McConnell continued to be unresponsive.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Who has gotten next to nothing done in all his decades, and can’t even bring his own side together. If you can’t even gain the popularity of your own party, it doesn’t matter how progressive and correct your views are if you can’t get anything done. Bernie is a failure, find someone new please for the love of god

        • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Americans are so centrist that liberals think anyone who disagrees with them is a neoliberal or conservative. You guys have no idea what true liberalism is, Bernie Sanders is a sad American impression of what that is. But again, so far up your own conservative asses (even the Democrats are conservatives in the u.s) that you call me a neolib, without thinking that maybe you’re the one who isn’t going far enough to the left.