By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
Many people were surprised to learn this morning that a U.S. senator had died and it was not Mitch McConnell. Wild rumors have been swirling about the former Republican Senate majority leader’s health for the past month. McConnell was taken from his home in an ambulance on June 14, and has been in the hospital ever since. His staff did not offer any substantive updates on his condition, even as elected officials from both parties called for an explanation and conservative commentators demanded proof of life.
Then on Sunday night, around 12 hours after we learned of the shocking death of McConnell’s Senate colleague Lindsey Graham, the Kentuckian finally shared a photo and a lengthy statement on his health.
