State bankruptcy furor shakes up McConnell reelection bid

[Judi Lynn]

BY JORDAIN CARNEY AND MAX GREENWOOD - 04/29/20 06:00 AM EDT

Democrats are seizing on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) suggestion that states should be able to declare bankruptcy as the party looks to bring his Kentucky seat into play.

The GOP leader has made his outsized influence in Washington a key pillar of his campaign, positioning himself as the driving force behind Congress’s coronavirus relief bills and touting his efforts to score critical federal aid for his state.

But Democrats believe McConnell’s remarks — that states facing budget shortfalls amid the pandemic should be able to “use the bankruptcy route” — blow a hole in his reelection argument.

“I would anticipate seeing them in a lot of campaign ads,” said Ryan Aquilina, the executive director of the Ditch Mitch Fund, a Democratic-aligned outside group. It was “the single stupidest thing I have seen him say in quite some time. ... I think in a state like Kentucky it really is an attack on pensions, it’s an attack on the Medicaid program, on cops.”

More:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495169-state-bankruptcy-furor-shakes-up-mcconnell-reelection-bid

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Taker mcCONnell is DIVIDING the UNITED States, in the middle of life & death crisis. . . nt

[lagomorph777]

2. Moscow Mitch hands another gift to McGrath

Fuckin' geeenius!

[grumpyduck]

3. Crash. And. Burn.

Asshole!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Good

Moscow Mitch reaps what he sows.