Mitch McConnell falls during Senate Republican lunch

It is unclear if helium sustained immoderate injuries astatine this time.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell fell during the Senate Republican luncheon connected Tuesday.

It is unclear if McConnell, 82, sustained immoderate injuries oregon what the severity of the autumn was. Two aesculapian responders were seen concisely entering his bureau and person since departed.

Newly-elected Senate Republican Leader John Thune, who volition instrumentality the mantle from McConnell successful January, was asked astir McConnell's autumn during the Republican property league aft the lunch.

"He's fine, he's successful his office," Thune said, deferring further questions to McConnell's staff. McConnell's bureau has not yet released a statement.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the enclosure arsenic Congress returns for the lame-duck league astatine the Capitol successful Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

McConnell, who has walked with a limp aft overcoming polio astatine a young age, has taken erstwhile falls.

One autumn successful March 2023 astatine a edifice successful Washington resulted successful a prolonged lack from the Senate. McConnell suffered a concussion and fractured rib from the incident, requiring hospitalization and outpatient rehabilitation that forced him to miss six weeks connected Capitol Hill.

McConnell besides sparked interest aft 2 episodes past twelvemonth during which helium appeared to frost successful beforehand of tv cameras, though helium was aboriginal cleared to enactment by the Capitol physician.

The longtime Kentucky legislator announced successful February helium was stepping down from the enactment relation he's held for 2 decades.

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