Nearly 3/4 Republicans want McConnell out of Senate leadership: poll

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be nearly devoid of support for his continued stewardship of the GOP in the upper chamber among the party's rank and file.

The Kentucky Republican has vowed to remain Senate minority leader and to complete his current Senate term amid mounting pressure for his resignation due to concerns he is not well enough to serve in office.

73% of respondents in a recent Rasmussen Reports poll opined that he ought to leader Senate leadership. That figure included 74% of Republicans and 73% of Democrats.

"I’m going to finish my term as leader and I’m going to finish my Senate term," he said earlier this month.

The calls for McConnell's resignation follow a pair of on-camera freezes that some have speculated may be minor strokes or seizures. Dr. Brian Monahan, the Capitol physician, has ruled out such possibilities and contended that his freeze-ups may the result of a concussion he sustained from a prior fall or merely the product of dehydration.

Kentucky's junior senator, Rand Paul, however, has questioned that diagnosis. Paul, an ophthalmologist, has questioned Monahan's comments, saying "[w]hen you get dehydrated you don’t have moments where your eyes look in the distance with a vacant look and you’re sort of basically unconscious with your eyes open. That is not a symptom of dehydration."

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.