{"id":778,"date":"2023-08-07T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2023-08-07T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:05:45","slug":"mcconnell-deluged-with-chants-of-retire-at-ky-event-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/mcconnell-deluged-with-chants-of-retire-at-ky-event-video\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Deluged with Chants of &#8220;Retire!&#8221; at KY Event &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell was nearly drowned out during a speech this weekend at the &#8220;Fancy Farm Picnic&#8221; in Kentucky. McConnell has appeared at the event, which features Republican and Democrat speakers, for 28 years. Chants of &#8220;Retire&#8221; rang through the crowd, which was a mixture of Democrats and Republicans. This follows <a href=\"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/sen-mitch-mcconnell-freezes-up-during-press-conference-unable-to-speak-video\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"749\">McConnell&#8217;s &#8220;freeze&#8221; moment during a Press Conference<\/a> recently, when he seemed unable to speak suddenly and had to be led away from the podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faced a less than welcoming reception at the Fancy Farm Picnic in Kentucky, with some attendees interrupting him and yelling &#8216;retire&#8217; and &#8216;ditch Mitch.&#8217; The calls for retirement come after McConnell froze in mid-sentence during a previous event, but he later resumed answering questions. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/videos\/kentucky-crowd-shouts-retire-mitch-mcconnell?utm_source=mux&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JUST THE NEWS<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kentucky crowd yells &quot;retire&quot; at Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vcmAqjbvXK\">pic.twitter.com\/vcmAqjbvXK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1688329530535182336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell was nearly drowned out during a speech this weekend at the &#8220;Fancy Farm Picnic&#8221; in Kentucky. McConnell has appeared at the event, which features Republican and Democrat speakers, for 28 years. Chants of &#8220;Retire&#8221; rang through the crowd, which was a mixture of Democrats and Republicans. This follows McConnell&#8217;s &#8220;freeze&#8221; moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kentucky","category-mitch-mcconnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}