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What I'm not altogether clear on is how keeping his seat empty benefits Republicans. Doesn't this mean that they are short one vote in the Senate?
It avoids an election they are afraid of losing, which would leave them short one vote and the Democrats up one vote.
It also tests the waters for further ignoring the law and Democrats are so far failing to provide any deterance.
Ah, so the election would be bipartisan? That makes sense for the Republicans but doesn't then explain why the Democrats aren't demanding the election go ahead in his absence. The fucker is obviously dead.
I mean, I know the Dems often act as controlled opposition, but this is just embarrassing.
Well...it is Kentucky we're talking about here. Not the biggest champions of democracy in this state.
It's not even an election, it's an appointment. Beshear would get to appoint a Senate seat.
The 2024 law taking that power away from him has already been ruled to violate Kentucky's constitution in another case.
They know the score with an empty seat and it's still good enough.
They don't want to risk an unknown they didn't need to face.
Better one neutral than one opposed, I guess.
There's not one. This is all conspiracy nonsense.
All the answers are "because they're afraid to lose the seat to a democrat." In rural Kentucky? Get out of here with that nonsense.
The Occam's Razor answer is that he's just not dead. I'd bet the farm on it.
He's not physically dead because they're keeping him on life support and refuse to pull the plug until after August 3rd. He's likely been brain dead since they carried him out of his house on the stretcher.
I guarantee that there will be a "sad" announcement within 48 hours of August 3rd that McConnell has passed away peacefully.
Why? Like, to what end? It doesn't make sense on its face. It only hurts the Republicans to hide this information.
The far more likely explanation is that he's too sick to go into work because he's old and fell. But he's not any more actually incapable of fulfilling the role than he was 6mo ago.
He's ancient and was barely holding it together before he fell. I'm sure he's pretty battered. I'm sure it'll take him some time to heal at all because, again, he's pushing 90.
But this idea that he's secretly a vegetable and the Republicans are covering it up makes absolutely no sense. It's just Newsmax style pandering but for the left.
Stop spreading fake news please, we all know he has been brain dead a lot longer than that
Given all the evidence by this point, Occam's Razor would suggest he is dead. Or comatose, at the very least.
Why? Why would anyone cover it up? It only hurts the Republicans to do so.