Thing is though, since his wife fled the country, they have no one there who legally can pull life support.
And since his office is refusing to confirm that he won't be able to continue work, the plan seems to be to have his literal vegetative corpse occupy his senate seat until after the August 13th cutoff. Before that point, if he was deemed unable to fulfill his duties as a senator, Governor Andy Bashear would be within his right to appoint a senator to finish our McConnell's term.
Which the Kentucky state senate foresaw as a possible issue with the popular democratic governor in office, and attempted to forestall a possible catastrophe by ammending the state constitution to allow the governor the ability to only replace a senator or represenative who has been unable to finish their term with a member of the same party, which means Bashear would need to put in a republican.
Except which recently-ousted republican congressman has been the target of much of the Maga hate thanks to his role in pushing for the release of the Epstein Files and end to Military Intervention on behalf of Israel? The very same Thomas Massie that AIPAC just funded the largest ever congressional election race to unseat.
It is clear that Bashear would appoint Massie, giving him arguably an even more influential role as he would be promoted from Congress to Senate, and so the GOP has pressured McConnell's office to not confirm the actual state of the decomposing turtle despite it being pretty clear that the forgeter has died as he lived: A Braindead corpse whose function is only to devalue the democratic process by taking advantage of obscure legislative loopholes.
TLDR:
mitch mcconnell reportedly brain dead. about time.
Will somehow do absolutely nothing to change how this guy is affecting politics.
*Edit: Correction, I was mistaken with what the legislative change was regarding Kentucky. The deadline in august is actually for whether a special election is held for a new senator to hold McConnell's seat until the end of his term in Janurary 2027. If that deadline is passed, the seat will just remain vacant until the newly elected senator from the November election is chosen.
