By Canadian Press

Spokesman: GOP leader McConnell hospitalized after fall

Mar 8, 2023 | 11:17 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tripped and fell Wednesday at a hotel and was hospitalized, a spokesman for the senator said.

McConnell, 81, was attending a private dinner at a local hotel when he tripped. He was admitted to a hospital for treatment, spokesman Doug Andres said.

In 2019, the GOP leader, a survivor of childhood polio, tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, suffering a shoulder fracture.

Mary Clare Jalonick And Lisa Mascaro, The Associated Press