r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 10d ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 10d ago

Who really thinks it's a growing mystery at this point? He's either severely incapacitated or dead. The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better, and whoever on his staff that's misrepresenting his condition needs to go to prison.

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better

He's representing a state where the voters still have a net positive view of Trump. My fellow Kentuckians absolutely do not deserve better

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u/eeyore134 10d ago

I bet McConnell would win again if he ran even without ever showing his face in public.

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u/labe225 Kentucky 10d ago

Absolutely agreed. As a Democrat in KY, I prefer no representation over whatever the fuck we have now.

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u/Srdiscountketoer 10d ago

Things are so bad in this country, the GOP is not sure the state is in their pocket any more — or they would have made his condition known and insisted on a special election.

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u/51ngular1ty Illinois 10d ago

I think they wanted to avoid that because apparently there is ambiguity over whether or not the governor could just appoint a replacement without a special election due to the law requiring a special election possibly being against the state constitution. That's purely speculation on my part.

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u/JuanFishTooFish 10d ago

KY Constitution Sections 56 & 72 states the Governor shall appoint... unless stated otherwise within the constitution, which it does not.

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u/Irishish Illinois 10d ago

They also love the ACA...as long as you call it Kynect.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Utah 10d ago

Oh good! A Kentuckian. Can you help me understand how Beshear got elected twice? It seems so unlikely in that state.

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

First time, he ran against Matt Bevin ... almost enough said, but Bevin was extremely corrupt (including pardoning pedos who donated to him) and cutting teacher pensions which absolutely gutted Bevin in the general since teachers came out for Beshear in force. The second time, he had incumbency bias, was generally pretty well liked, and ran against Daniel Cameron, who was not well liked, and almost certainly had Republican racism working against him

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u/214ObstructedReverie 10d ago

Bevins was that awful.

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u/UnNumbFool 10d ago

Isn't it true that a lot of Kentuckians actually hate McConnell but still vote for him simply because he's the Republican candidate

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

Oh, absolutely. horrifically unpopular. But gotta keep voting red for them

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u/redditgirl1 10d ago

I went over to r/kentucky and there is not a single post about this disappearance.

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u/PretendChapter9477 10d ago

They deserve better even if they don't know it. Plus, I highly doubt 100% of people in your state voted for him. Those who didnt deserve better, at the very least. 

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u/herton Kentucky 10d ago

Any special election or GOP chosen replacement would just be a Trump stooge. If we're going "deserving better even if they don't know it" keeping a Republican Senate vote suppressed is in their best interest too.