Mitch McConnell
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
  • After Mitch McConnell froze again, a Kentucky GOP leader said the senator should have left last year.
  • Bob Barney, the GOP chair in Jessamine County, told The Post he was "disappointed" in the situation.
  • But McConnell's Republican Senate colleagues have, by and large, rallied around him.

After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday experienced a second freezing episode similar to an earlier incident in July, GOP senators have so far publicly rallied around the Kentucky Republican.