‘Thinking about Mitch McConnell’: Lindsey Graham in viral video before death

Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham’s death coincided with Senator Mitch McConnell’s first statement since he was hospitalized last month.

After news of Graham’s death surfaced online, a video of the Republican was shared on social media where he is asked about the health of Mitch McConnel’s health.

“Mitch McConnel, how is he doing. Have you heard anything,” asked a reporter.

Graham said, “I am going to go check right now with my office. And I'm hoping and praying he's doing well, but I'm going to check just right now.”

Asked was there “a contingency plan if for some reason his health continues to worsen,” the Senator said, “I have no idea. I am just thinking about Mitch.

The video was made inside the Capitol in the Senate wing corridors.

Although the exact date and time of the video is not known but it has been widely circulated on social media after Graham's death on Sunday.

Graham sat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and McConnell remains a member.

According to Reuters news agency, without them, the panel could have a harder time reaching an agreement on ⁠government funding to avert a federal shutdown when current funding expires at the start of fiscal year 2027 on October 1.

Graham died from a heart ailment late on Saturday, his office said, with a temporary replacement expected to be named by the South Carolina governor.

McConnell, an 84-year-old Kentucky Republican who has spent half his life in Congress, also chairs the Senate Rules Committee and has been absent since mid-June.