Mitch McConnell’s dizzy spell has politicos in Kentucky, Washington spinning plans for a successor
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s on-camera health scare set off a political guessing game in Kentucky about how the Democratic governor will name a replacement if he gets the chance.
The guessing game in Washington was about who is on deck to lead Senate Republicans if Mr. McConnell goes.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear finds himself boxed in by the 2021 law requiring the governor to file mid-term vacancies in the U.S. Senate from a list of three candidates chosen by the state party of the previous sitting senator.
Mr. Beshear may thumb his nose at the new law and try to name a Democrat.
“I would imagine you would absolutely see a lawsuit on this,” Michael Abate, a Louisville attorney who’s worked for the Kentucky Democratic Party in the past, told the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader.
