Eighty-year-old senator 'lobotomized' into a Republican puppet?

According to PolyBeats monitoring, a video recently circulated widely showing 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell being filmed with a blank stare and unresponsive to his surroundings as he headed to Congress to vote. In the video, McConnell sits in a vehicle seat, mouth slightly open, eyes staring straight ahead, with an almost motionless expression. Online comments focused on "lobotomized," "remote-controlled puppet," and "doesn't even know where he is."

Earlier, on June 14, McConnell fell at his home in Washington, briefly lost consciousness, and after being taken to the hospital developed pneumonia and was admitted to a rehabilitation center, not being discharged home until August 6. His public appearances were interrupted for about three months. This caused the market probability that "McConnell will resign as senator before the end of his term" to rise as high as 83% in July. Currently, that probability is 12%.

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One of the reasons for the sharp drop in that probability is that he is a core figure in the Republican camp. McConnell's appearance this time was intended to cast the decisive vote on the Agriculture Committee's farm bill; without him, the bill could not get out of committee. In addition, if he resigned now, his duties over the next few months would be temporarily filled by appointment by a Democratic governor, which would be unfavorable to Republicans.