# Mitch McConnell falls twice in Capitol **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-falls-twice-in-capitol/1013937 "2025-02-06T00:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 429
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-falls-twice-in-capitol/1013937/429 "2026-07-14T20:22:03Z")
I’ll say this much – **[McConnell may have anticipated this kind of event befalling him](https://thedailyrecord.com/2024/01/08/white-house-to-review-defense-secretarys-lack-of-disclosure-on-hospital-stay/)** after Lloyd Austin’s Dec 2023-Jan 2024 cancer surgery and hospitalization (my bolding below): > Sen. Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the only member of Congress Austin contacted about his hospitalization, called it a “serious incident” and said there needs to be accountability from the Pentagon. > > New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, and Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, all Republicans, have called for Austin to resign. **Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell did not answer when asked if Austin should resign.** **[The first 10-12 posts of a contemporary P&E thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sec-def-lloyd-austin-secretly-hospitalized/995719)** provides a refresher on Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization, for which the former Defense Secretary drew considerable bipartisan criticism. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-falls-twice-in-capitol/1013937)._