Amy, Donald and Mitch. McGrath signals a different tone -- and a moderate shift.
It took three minutes for former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath to show she plans on running a different kind of race against U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell than she ran against Rep. Andy Barr.
McGrath pushed back against the Republican messaging that she’s “too liberal for Kentucky,” in her first interview as a Senate candidate on MSNBC, calling herself a “moderate” and saying she disagreed with Medicare for all and subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants. And she went straight for McConnell, accusing him of creating gridlock in D.C. and blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“Kentuckians voted for Trump, they wanted to drain the swamp,” McGrath said. “And Trump said he was going to do that. Trump promised to bring back jobs, he promised to lower drug prices for so many Kentuckians. And that is very important. And who stops them along the way, who stops the president from doing these things? Well, Mitch McConnell.”
The message — that McConnell has created so much dysfunction in Washington that he’s even blocked the policies of a president who remains very popular in Kentucky — is a difficult one. It risks alienating the liberal base, who oppose any Trump policy on principle, while doing little to win over moderate Republicans who have been placated by McConnell’s key role in helping Trump reshape the courts by nominating conservative justices.
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But, damn, the people of KY just won't wake up, will they? Can they not see that they have been sold out by McConnell and his ilk, including now Trump, for decades?
What's the matter with Kansas? What's the matter with KY and WV, and AL, and LA, and GA, and on and on... 
