Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has a black eye and multiple stitches after suffering a fall that knocked him unconscious and sent him to the hospital.
Romney, 73, showed up at the Capitol on Monday with bruises under his right eye that extended slightly under his face mask.
“I took a fall. Knocked me unconscious. But I’m doing better,” Romney told the Capitol press pool.
He declined to elaborate about what he was doing that sparked the fall but said that he was in Boston, Massachusetts, because he was visiting his grandchildren and that he went to the hospital afterward.
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Romney said he got “a lot of stitches.”
“I don’t know how many. I asked the doctor how many stitches, and she said, ‘I don’t know,’ but it’s all through my eyebrow and my lip,” he said.
Sen @MittRomney has a black eye and stitches, says he took a fall while visiting his son in Boston, “I took a fall, knocked me unconscious but I’m doing better.”
Joked: “I went to CPAC, that was a problem…” pic.twitter.com/6P1QWrjr9O
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) March 1, 2021
Romney is far from the only septuagenarian politician to suffer wounds from an accidental injury in recent months.
In late November, President Biden, the president-elect at the time, fractured his foot while playing with his dog and had to wear a walking boot for several weeks.
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The 2012 Republican presidential nominee, who some Utah Republicans have called to censure over his vote in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump, initially joked about the source of his black eye.
“I had kind of a tough — tough weekend. You see that?” Romney said before quipping about the Conservative Political Action Conference, which he skipped: “I went to CPAC, that was a problem.”
