Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took a rough spill Thursday while trying to speed away from a protester – and the footage spread like wildfire.

A video of the incident showed the 83-year-old senator falling to the ground while trying to put distance between himself and a woman who identified herself as “Stella.”

“Do you support ICE taking working people off the streets and kidnapping them?” the protester asked while approaching McConnell in the basement of a Senate office building.

A Capitol Police officer and another man lifted McConnell off the floor and escorted him to a nearby restricted area. A McConnell spokesperson told The Hill that the senator is “fine.”

Thursday’s fall was the latest in a series of health scares for the seventh-term senator – McConnell fell twice in February

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