McConnell’s Team Offers Another Cryptic Update As Health Questions Mount

The useful part

Mitch McConnell's health situation is becoming increasingly difficult to understand, largely because his team continues to provide very little information about the 84-year-old senator's condition. It has now been roughly two and a half months since emergency responders were called to McConnell's Washington home and he was taken to the hospital. His staff has maintained that he suffered a fall and subsequently developed pneumonia, while insisting that he did not have a heart attack or stroke.

How it works

• Three weeks later, however, his communications director, Stephanie Penn, reportedly declined to supply any further information about his condition or his plans for returning to the Senate.
• Her response was essentially that there was nothing to add to the previous statement.

Details worth keeping

McConnell has remained almost entirely out of public view since then. His office's most recent substantive update came Aug.