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Senator? Mitch McConnell is rumoured dead, or in hospital on life support.

Repub lawmakers are denying it (and eh resulting election).
They're posting identikit "I spoke with Mitch for 20 minutes this afternoon" on social media.

Must be some crowded visiting hours.

I also tried to contact him.

That's all a bit Soviet Union, isn't it?

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2026 2:53 pm Repub lawmakers are denying it (and eh resulting election).
They're posting identikit "I spoke with Mitch for 20 minutes this afternoon" on social media.

There's a lot of spoof ones too...

Meanwhile, there's this fine mess.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/0 ... n-00987737

A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.

The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.

Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.

“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”

Platner denied the allegations.

Just an utter, utter mess and in a senate seat the Democrats need to win to hope to gain control of the Senate.