{"id":99868,"date":"2026-08-16T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/gov-andy-beshear-ive-heard-nothing-from-sen-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:42:23","slug":"gov-andy-beshear-ive-heard-nothing-from-sen-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/gov-andy-beshear-ive-heard-nothing-from-sen-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Andy Beshear: I&#8217;ve Heard Nothing From Sen. McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called on his state&#8217;s Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to offer some proof of life during an appearance this morning on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221;  CBS&#8217;s Anthony Salvanto asked: &#8220;You&#8217;ve been trying to get updates on the status of Sen. Mitch McConnell. Have you heard anything from Mitch McConnell&#8217;s office on how he is doing?&#8221;  &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard absolutely nothing,&#8221; Beshear said. &#8220;I do hope that he is getting better &#8211; I have known him my entire life, I wish him no harm, I wish him good health.&#8221;  &#8220;But his bosses are the people of Kentucky\u2026 This is why the Republican controlled Senate is so broken. They feel like they aren&#8217;t accountable to anyone.&#8221;   &#8220;All he needs to do is call in to this show for tw minuted, or Fox News, or do a video for two minutes for the people he is supposed to serve, and he absolutely refuses to do it.&#8221;  Beshear added that Senate GOP Leader Thune has a responsibility to &#8220;ensure all of the senators are fit to serve.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/16\/gov_andy_beshear_ive_heard_nothing_from_sen_mcconnell.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called on his state&#8217;s Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to offer some proof of life during an appearance this morning on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221; CBS&#8217;s Anthony Salvanto asked: &#8220;You&#8217;ve been trying to get updates on the status of Sen. Mitch McConnell. Have you heard anything from Mitch McConnell&#8217;s office on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11917,2898,18554,245,6813,6953,7977,2304,12844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}