India, July 19 -- Senator Mitch McConnell's June 12 hospitalization and his prolonged absence from the Senate have sharply divided the Republicans. It has been five weeks and one day, as of Saturday, July 18, since Mitch McConnel remains in hospital.

His office had said that the Kentucky Senator was recovering - a stance that was repeated when McConnell missed a Senate vote late in June. Around the same time, TMZ reported on a purported 911 call at McConnell's residence on the day of his hospitalization which showed EMS responding to a person experiencing cardiac arrest.

The report sparked a deluge of theories about the Senator's health, especially by MAGA conspiracy theorists like Laura Loomer who claimed McConnell was "brain dead". Su...