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🚨 BREAKING: AFTER 97 DAYS OFF THE FLOOR — MCCONNELL WALKS IN AND CASTS THE 47-46 VOTE THAT ADVANCED AN OHIO JUDGE!Mitch McConnell just ended the longest disappearing act of his final term. Three months after a home fall, a brief loss of consciousness, pneumonia, and rehab, the Kentucky Republican returned on the Senate’s first day back from the five-week recess and provided the critical aye on a 47-46 vote to cut off debate and advance Ohio judge Matthew R. Byrne for the Southern District of Ohio.It was his first vote since June 11. Other senators were still straggling in from August. There was almost no margin. Capitol Police had thickened around his residence. He arrived after the session opened, still in physical therapy, still not 100 percent, and told reporters it was time to get back to work before he retires in January.He has pledged the tough roll calls to Leader John Thune — farm bill, NATO, Ukraine — while doctors keep him in PT. America First voices spent weeks demanding proof of life. Tonight they got a recorded vote instead.Ninety-seven days. One vote. The nomination moved by a single aye.America FIRST! 🇺🇸