Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear just admitted he received not one but TWO calls from agencies suggesting longtime Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was dead while the 84-year-old senator was hospitalized and largely silent for nearly a month.

The 84-year-old Kentucky senator was reportedly found unconscious in his D.C. home last month before he was hospitalized.

Conservative reporter Laura Loomer said a White House source told her that McConnell is being kept alive with machines and is “brain dead.”

Mitch McConnell is being kept “alive” by life support machines, but my White House source told me McConnell is in organ failure, and as I reported, source told me he has allegedly been declared a vegetable (brain dead) by doctors and the White House has been told “McConnell isn’t…

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 6, 2026

In a recent interview with Katie Couric posted on Wednesday, Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear spilled the beans, according to Fox News.

“It had been a month before anything had been put out, not even an official statement from Senator McConnell. In fact, I’d gotten two calls from different agencies, not state agencies, suggesting he’d passed,” Beshear said. “So, this rampant speculation that was out there, it needed to end.”

The Democrat governor claimed the calls came from “different agencies” but refused to name them. He also noted they were not state agencies.

Beshear had been publicly demanding updates and even sent a letter to McConnell’s office. Now he reveals he was being told the senator might already be gone.

Meanwhile, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin added fuel to the fire, then quickly backtracked.

Johnson initially told Real America’s Voice he had “heard from some other sources” that the hospital photo “was an older photo.”

Johnson also questioned whether McConnell himself had authored the accompanying statement.

Hours later, however, Johnson reversed course, telling NewsNation to “discount all that” and acknowledging he had no evidence supporting the rumor.

Johnson wished McConnell a full recovery so the Kentucky senator could return and help advance President Trump’s agenda.

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Most importantly, I hope @SenMcConnell makes a full recovery and returns to the Senate. https://t.co/7arX4hmrHt

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) July 13, 2026

McConnell was hospitalized after a fall on June 14 that left him briefly unconscious. For weeks his office released almost nothing of substance. Speculation exploded.

On July 12, McConnell’s office finally released a statement saying he suffered a fall, developed mild pneumonia, and was undergoing rehab.

Doctors ruled out heart attack, stroke, tumors, hemorrhages, broken bones, or concussion. The statement came with a photo of McConnell in a hospital bed next to his wife Elaine Chao, holding a copy of that day’s Washington Post sports section.

MCCONNELL releases a photo – and statement.

“To my fellow Kentuckians –

“When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth’s longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I’d keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the past several weeks,… pic.twitter.com/YTzTXDhEgu

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 12, 2026