By Liz Brown-Kaiser -
NBC News
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, was hospitalized after tripping and falling at a hotel, a spokesman said Wednesday.
“Tonight, Leader McConnell stumbled into a local hotel during a private dinner.
He has been admitted to the hospital where he is receiving treatment," McConnell's spokesman David Popp said in a statement.
McConnell, 81, is serving his seventh term in the Senate, after being first elected in 1984. He was Senate Majority Leader until early 2021.
No additional information was immediately available on his condition Wednesday night.
The incident was first reported by Punchbowl News, a political news website.
McConnell was first elected senator in 1984, and in 2020 he was re-elected to a seventh term.
He was Senate Majority Leader from 2015 until early 2021, when Democrats clinched a majority after the 2020 election.
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