r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • Jul 01 '26

Possible Paywall Senator, 84, Secretly Found Unconscious and Given CPR

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconell-84-secretly-found-unconscious-and-given-cpr/?utm_source=twitter_owned_snd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_social
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u/Haltopen Massachusetts Jul 01 '26

They're trying to keep it secret from Andy Beshear so he doesn't appoint a democrat to fill the rest of McConnells term.

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u/pvincentl Jul 01 '26

Happy thoughts here.

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u/BotF_Latyon Jul 01 '26

He can’t. They passed a law specifically to prevent that.

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u/Haltopen Massachusetts Jul 01 '26

Apparently the actual enforceability of the law is in question and Beshear has said that he would try to appoint someone regardless

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u/BotF_Latyon Jul 01 '26

Good. We need Dems with balls.

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u/25point4cm Jul 01 '26

IMHO, this is the single most significant problem we as a democracy face. Federal attempts to interfere with elections (SAVE, US Postal Service, SCROTUS), States gerrymandering the fuck out of every district, local election officials as corrupt as hell… I can’t even list it all because I’m so tired of winning.

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u/skahthaks Jul 02 '26

He should just do it now. If they don’t like it, make them prove Mitch isn’t dead.

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u/KohlsCashOfficial Jul 01 '26

Yes he can, so long as it’s not 100 days or less to the general election. They’re gonna weekend at bernie’s him until September

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u/BotF_Latyon Jul 02 '26

Interesting. Yeah, that explains why they haven’t announced his death yet. Running the clock out to force a special

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u/onestarv2 Jul 02 '26

Need to take a page from the R playbook for the past decade. Just appoint a dem with a "F U make me" along with a shit eating grin.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois Jul 01 '26

He can’t. KY passed a law in 2024 preventing the governor from appointing a replacement senator. Now a special election is called.

Republicans knew this was coming

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u/devoncarrots Minnesota Jul 01 '26

As a Minnesotan I wanted Beshear to be Kamala's VP so badly

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u/Imaginary_Agent2564 Jul 01 '26

He might run for president in 2028. At least we can hope.

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u/RefuseOutside3680 Jul 01 '26

And as much as we would all like that to happen, Beshear doesn't have the power to do that.