McConnell Faces Fresh GOP Pressure to ‘Come Back’

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A Republican colleague of Sen. Mitch McConnell is calling on him to return to work as his secretive health crisis is in its sixth week.

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, 71, reminded the 84-year-old McConnell that Republicans cannot afford to lose McConnell’s vote in the Senate, where the GOP holds only a razor-thin majority.

“Somebody needs to do something.

Somebody needs to come out and put a little video out,” Tuberville told journalist https://x.com/NicholasBallasy/status/2079536402815991943" rel="">Nicholas Ballasy on Tuesday. “We didn’t get any information today in our luncheon.

I don’t know why, what’s going on, but that’s not my business; that’s the leadership’s business, and we wish him well.”

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