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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a fall and in which he cut his face and sprained his wrist after Republicans’ weekly conference lunch on Tuesday afternoon, according to his office.

“Leader McConnell tripped following lunch,” a spokesman for the Kentucky Republican said in a statement. “He sustained a minor cut to the face and sprained his wrist. He has been cleared to resume his schedule.”

McConnell, 82, was treated by EMTs in his Senate office after the scrape, but his successor calmed nerves minutes later to announce the GOP leader was on the mend.

“He is fine. He is in his office,” incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters after the accident.

Few details were provided of McConnell’s condition, though photographers apparently saw him with the cut on his face and medical personnel were spotted entering his Senate office. 

He is believed to have slipped in a room outside of the Senate chamber. 

Thune, 63, was voted by the Senate GOP conference to replace McConnell as leader of Republicans in the upper chamber last November.

The Kentucky sage announced in February that he was stepping down from his leadership position after the 2024 election.

That announcement came against the backdrop of multiple health scares involving McConnell.

The longest-serving GOP leader in Senate history fractured a rib and was concussed after a fall at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Washington back in March last year that briefly hospitalized him.

Later in July of last year, while deplaning from a canceled flight at Ronald Reagan National Airport in northern Virginia, McConnell fell again — an incident that had been kept under wraps for about two weeks. 

However, that same month, McConnell shocked the political beltway by growing stonefaced and trailing off abruptly mid-sentence during a weekly press conference on Capitol Hill. 

The seven-term Republican senator had several repeat incidents of a similar nature in which he’d freeze up with a blank expression on his face for about a minute before recovering. 

McConnell repeatedly downplayed questions about his health and well-being, with his team pointing to medical professionals who attributed those freeze-up incidents to his concussion. 

While he has stepped down as Senate Republican leader, a role he’s held since 2007 which makes him the longest serving upper chamber leader of any party in US history, McConnell has been coy about whether he will seek reelection in 2026. 

He is a survivor of polio, a disease that he contracted at the age of two, which left his upper left leg paralyzed.