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    12 hours ago

    Sen. Mitch McConnell’s wife reportedly traveled to China just three days after he received CPR following an apparent heart attack.

    Elaine Chao, 73, who has been married to the 84-year-old Republican lawmaker since 1993 and formerly served as transportation secretary in the first Trump administration, traveled to Beijing and met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng just days after McConnell’s hospitalization.

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      8 hours ago

      She, as a politicians partner with zero public political power immediately travels to China to visit the upper echelons of their political system while her husband’s recovering from some near-fatal attack just hours earlier.

      Its probably a job for her, not a choice.