McConnell, 81, a Kentucky Republican, stopped talking in the midst of remarks at his usually scheduled weekly information convention on Capitol Hill.
After a 30-second pause, his colleagues crowded round to see if he was OK and requested him how he felt.
GOP Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming was seen gripping McConnell’s arm and whispered to him, “Hey Mitch, the rest you need to say? Or ought to we simply return to your workplace? Do you need to say the rest to the press?”
He mentioned nothing, and was led away from the press convention and in direction of his workplace by an aide. He returned to the information convention a couple of minutes later.
McConnell, requested by CNN what occurred and whether it is associated to his fall earlier this yr, mentioned “No, I am tremendous,” after which moved on to different reporters.
A McConnell aide mentioned that the senator “felt gentle headed and stepped away for a second.”
“He got here again to deal with Q and A, which as everybody noticed was sharp,” the aide mentioned.
McConnell, 81, has confronted questions over his well being after struggling a concussion and damaged ribs from a fall he endured earlier this yr. He was hospitalized and compelled to go to rehab for a number of weeks earlier than returning to the Senate within the spring.
McConnell, who’s up for reelection in 2026, has repeatedly declined to say if he’ll run for an additional time period or attempt to run for GOP chief once more within the subsequent Congress, which begins in 2025. Whereas he informed CNN final fall he would undoubtedly end out his time period, in an interview in Might – after he suffered the concussion – he did not need to have interaction.
“I believed this was not an interview about my future,” he mentioned when requested if he would serve out his time period or run for chief once more. “I believed it was an interview in regards to the 2024 Senate elections.”
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