Senate Republican: McConnell visitor said he’s ‘clear-minded’
Senate Senate Republican: McConnell visitor said he’s ‘clear-minded’ Comments: by Ryan Mancini - 07/27/26 10:52 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Ryan Mancini - 07/27/26 10:52 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said a person who recently visited Sen. Asked by Ballasy if she would visit McConnell, Capito said she will wait “until he asks for visitors.” “I think anybody who’s been in the hospital or in a rehab facility, uh, being visited — I think is a pretty sensitive topic,” she added.
- ▪Senate Senate Republican: McConnell visitor said he’s ‘clear-minded’ Comments: by Ryan Mancini - 07/27/26 10:52 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Ryan Mancini - 07/27/26 10:52 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen.
- ▪Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said a person who recently visited Sen.
- ▪Asked by Ballasy if she would visit McConnell, Capito said she will wait “until he asks for visitors.” “I think anybody who’s been in the hospital or in a rehab facility, uh, being visited — I think is a pretty sensitive topic,” she added.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Senate Senate Republican: McConnell visitor said he’s ‘clear-minded’ Comments: by Ryan Mancini - 07/27/26 10:52 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Ryan Mancini - 07/27/26 10:52 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said a person who recently visited Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while he has been in a rehabilitation center described the former leader as “clear-minded.” Capito told independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy in a video posted Saturday that she knew what had been reported, that McConnell “is recovering and is healing and is in a rehabilitation hospital.” “I talked to somebody yesterday who visited him and said that he’s clear-minded, and he just needs to get stronger,” she said.
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