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https://apnews.com/article/da3f87e9c5da4e12b4022b0bd84f59ec
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is capitalizing on a fellow Republican’s attack by selling “Cocaine Mitch” shirts on his campaign’s website.
The Kentucky lawmaker’s 2020 reelection campaign tweeted Wednesday that McConnell was closing in on one of his biggest fundraising days of the year thanks to sales of the bright red T-shirts, which feature a faceless, dark-haired figure over the name “MITCH” with a sprinkling of cocaine. On the back, they say “TEAM MITCH” and “CARTEL MEMBER.”
Buyers are urged to “join the ‘Team Mitch Cartel’” by purchasing the $35 shirts, and donating up to $2,800 per election. The campaign claimed they were “flying off the shelves.”
Don Blankenship coined the “Cocaine Mitch” moniker in a campaign ad during his failed Senate run from West Virginia last year. He was referring to a 2014 magazine article alleging that drugs were found aboard a commercial cargo ship owned by the family of McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who serves as President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is capitalizing on a fellow Republican’s attack by selling “Cocaine Mitch” shirts on his campaign’s website.
The Kentucky lawmaker’s 2020 reelection campaign tweeted Wednesday that McConnell was closing in on one of his biggest fundraising days of the year thanks to sales of the bright red T-shirts, which feature a faceless, dark-haired figure over the name “MITCH” with a sprinkling of cocaine. On the back, they say “TEAM MITCH” and “CARTEL MEMBER.”
Buyers are urged to “join the ‘Team Mitch Cartel’” by purchasing the $35 shirts, and donating up to $2,800 per election. The campaign claimed they were “flying off the shelves.”
Don Blankenship coined the “Cocaine Mitch” moniker in a campaign ad during his failed Senate run from West Virginia last year. He was referring to a 2014 magazine article alleging that drugs were found aboard a commercial cargo ship owned by the family of McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who serves as President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary.
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