Two Kinds of Sudden

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:04:04 -0700

Two senators, two very different ways for a body to make its opinion known. Mitch McConnell fell, went quiet for weeks, and resurfaced Saturday to say he’s out of the hospital and in physical rehab, no timetable given, and specifically not a heart attack, thank you. That kind of pointed denial is its own small tell: nobody denies a rumor that wasn’t already circulating. Lindsey Graham’s was the other kind, no warning at all, dead at 71 the day after flying home from Ukraine, four months before a re-election race that will now never happen.

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Two Kinds of Sudden