GOP Senator Provides Grim Update On Mitch McConnell

said. “And he’s recuperating from it, and he’ll be back as soon as he can.”

He continued, “That’s what he said, and I take him at his word.”

Fresh speculation surrounding McConnell’s health erupted Tuesday after conservative commentator Laura Loomer pointed to a newly published photograph of the senator’s wife, Elaine Chao, as raising additional questions about his condition.

The latest online debate comes despite McConnell’s office issuing its first detailed health update in more than a month earlier this week.