Senate Republican: McConnell visitor said he’s ‘clear-minded’

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said a person who recently visited Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while he has been in a rehabilitation center described the former leader as “clear-minded.”

Capito told independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy in a video posted Saturday that she knew what had been reported, that McConnell “is recovering and is healing and is in a rehabilitation hospital.”

“I talked to somebody yesterday who visited him and said that he’s clear-minded, and he just needs to get stronger,” she said.

Asked by Ballasy if she would visit McConnell, Capito said she will wait “until he asks for visitors.”

“I think anybody who’s been in the hospital or in a rehab facility, uh, being visited –– I think is a pretty sensitive topic,” she added.

McConnell has been in a rehabilitation facility after he was hospitalized and absent from the Senate for several weeks after a medical emergency at his Washington,........

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