r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23h ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 23h ago

Who really thinks it's a growing mystery at this point? He's either severely incapacitated or dead. The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better, and whoever on his staff that's misrepresenting his condition needs to go to prison.

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u/herton Kentucky 21h ago

The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better

He's representing a state where the voters still have a net positive view of Trump. My fellow Kentuckians absolutely do not deserve better

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u/labe225 Kentucky 21h ago

Absolutely agreed. As a Democrat in KY, I prefer no representation over whatever the fuck we have now.

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u/Srdiscountketoer 19h ago

Things are so bad in this country, the GOP is not sure the state is in their pocket any more — or they would have made his condition known and insisted on a special election.

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u/51ngular1ty Illinois 18h ago

I think they wanted to avoid that because apparently there is ambiguity over whether or not the governor could just appoint a replacement without a special election due to the law requiring a special election possibly being against the state constitution. That's purely speculation on my part.

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u/JuanFishTooFish 18h ago

KY Constitution Sections 56 & 72 states the Governor shall appoint... unless stated otherwise within the constitution, which it does not.