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GOP Scrambles to Assure Everyone That Mitch McConnell Is Alive | The Daily Show

Sen. Mitch McConnell's three-week absence has led many to wonder if he's even alive, but CNN's Scott Jennings put that question to rest with a totally believable claim that he chatted with the senator

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Is McConnell alive? Hold a séance and ask Lindsey Graham.
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@WySNeo From YouTube ↗ 11 Jul 2026 418
Nobody:

That one person in the audience: "~AHH!"
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"He's a sitting US senator..."

If he's in the hospital, he's more likely a lying US senator...well, then again, the other ones are too (in a different fashion)
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What’s even funnier about the Mitch and his wife gag is that she’s IN CHINA.
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His autopsy report says he's fine 😁
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Well there's alive and then there's undead, they aren't the same thing.
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@Daosguard From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 69
Mitch called me and we talked for 17 minutes.

He says he's dead.
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@abdvantage From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 722
We can't depend on our elderly 80+ year old parents or grandparents to manage our homes, and most companies won't even hire them, yet we rely on them to manage countries and critical decisions. Crazy!
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Staying in power until you die is an obvious sign you’re apart of the problem and never had any solutions.
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@SIXITHS From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 903
Weekend at Mitch's
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@trm4life From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 872
But while he's sick and not working I bet he still gets a paycheck, and his medical bills are covered.

If only we had the same privilege.
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If Republicans all say Mitch is alive then we know he is dead as a door-nail.
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"I talked to him." I can talk to Plato, Lincoln, and Marilyn Monroe, but they aren't talking back.
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@stuzza4526 From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 212
It’s immaterial if they “talked to him”. The question is, did he talk back?
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Schrödinger’ Senator. If we are unsure whether he’s dead or alive, how FRACKING CORRUPT, underhanded, and desperate can the GOP be?
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@camc1224 From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 1200
Someone is laughing so bad in this audience.
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They talked to him. Of course. They didn't say he talked back to them.
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If I missed work for 3 weeks without informing my employer, I'd be fired. The American people are his employer and we know nothing.
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“I just had a conversation with Mitch for 20 full minutes.” - the kid from the Sixth Sense
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@mrdadelus From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 1500
“I talked to him” is different than “we talked”.