Amy McGrath Is Now Officially Challenging Mitch McConnell

[turbinetree]

McGrath, a former Marine pilot, is already out-fundraising the Senate Republican leader.
Noah Lanard

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Amy McGrath, a Democrat and former Marine fighter pilot, has officially filed to challenge Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s 2020 US Senate election.

In the 2018 midterm elections, McGrath narrowly lost to Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) to represent the state’s 6th Congressional District. During her first months on the campaign trail before officially establishing her candidacy, McGrath outraised McConnell and other Democrats by bringing in nearly $11 million.

In 2016, Trump carried Kentucky by nearly 30 points. But last month, Gov. Matt Bevin, the nation’s “Trumpiest governor,” lost his reelection bid to Democrat Andy Beshear, after President Donald Trump campaigned for Bevin and said a loss for the unpopular incumbent would send “a really bad message.” The president pleaded, “You can’t let that happen to me!”

McGrath believes Beshear’s win helps her chances in 2020. “It absolutely gives us momentum,” she told the Associated Press, “because it shows that against an unpopular Republican incumbent, a Democrat can win.” McConnell is the country’s most unpopular senator in his home state, with 50 percent disapproval, although he’s still the heavy favorite in deep-red Kentucky.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/amy-mcgrath-is-now-officially-challenging-mitch-mcconnell/

[RestoreAmerica2020]

1. That's great. I hope she focuses on the hundreds of bills stalled by mcconnel. bills that would not

..only support her constituents but all Americans.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/11/29/20977735/how-many-bills-passed-house-democrats-trump&ved=2ahUKEwiD2fiKvtvmAhXqJDQIHRDyBgcQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw3siqDGF0FvDblEtKwWgznZ&ampcf=1

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Amy's a good one! And thanks for bringing Mother Jones to my attention.

I not only gave them a donation, but I also signed up for a 12 month subscription!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. Cool, Mother Jones is good!

Love that you subscribed AND donated! Happy Christmas, and Bountiful New Year to you, CaliforniaPeggy!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Thank you so much for the lovely thoughts, my dear BlancheSplanchnik!

A Bountiful New Year to you and yours as well!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. Thanks!

😄🥰

[madville]

4. Raising money shouldn't be a problem

But with Trump on the KY ticket, he and Mitch-boy will probably win this time around by 15 points or so.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. The power of gerrymandering

McConnell is the country’s most unpopular senator in his home state, with 50 percent disapproval, although he’s still the heavy favorite

[Stuart G]

6. Link and address to send money to and get more information:

https://amymcgrath.com/

Amy McGrath for Senate
P.O. Box 95
Lexington, KY 40588
[phone]

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Is she still running as a pro-Trump Democrat?

[abqtommy]

10. Amy! Amy! She's the one! Make Turtle soup out of that bum!

[kimbutgar]

11. Amy needs Ammo like this to go after Moscow Mitch

https://www.dcreport.org/2019/12/26/how-mitch-mcconnell-engineered-a-sweet-deal-for-the-coal-industry/

Kentucky coal miners—along with the rest of us—will be paying the price to keep the government running next year. And we can thank Kentucky’s senior senator, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for the sellout.

Buried in the giant $1.4 trillion government spending package that McConnell ushered through the Senate last week was a relatively modest $15 billion, 30-year payout to sustain the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund—a boon to the majority leader’s home state coal miners. As many as 1 in 5 of coal miners suffer from black lung.

But here’s the kicker: What McConnell had removed from the must-pass funding legislation. In order to keep the government running, McConnell threw out provisions that would have forced coal companies to commit to higher payments toward the health-care costs of their employees and retirees, nixing requirements to extend the commitment period and modestly increase the tax on coal mining companies that are supposed to support the trust Fund


Basically “ McConnell threw out provisions that would have forced coal companies to commit to higher payments toward the health-care costs of their employees and retirees“.

With Moscow Mitch only the rich corporations are the ones he’s watching out for.

Wake the “f” Kentucky!!!!