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3 key questions could force answers on whether or not Mitch McConnell is dead
McConnell’s Absence Is Not a Mystery. It Is a Power Vacuum His Party Is Managing in Public SilenceA Senator Goes Missing From the RecordAccording to the reporting, Mitch McConnell has missed Senate roll calls since June 11, with only scattered updates about a fall, pneumonia, and a hospital stay. That is the basic fact pattern. Everything else is the machinery of evasion: a photo, a few secondhand assurances, and a lot of people pretending the absence itself is not the story.The Real Power Is the One Controlling the InformationThis is not mainly about McConnell’s health. It is about who gets…
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