Senate hopeful Amy McGrath, a Democrat, wants to take on Mitch McConnell by making the case to Kentucky voters that the majority leader is preventing many of Trump’s central 2016 campaign promises from becoming reality
Amy McGrath knows the image Mitch McConnell has: the steely, cold-but-effective master of the Senate. The tactician who will win at all costs, and who has quietly gone about enacting major pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda and filling the federal bench with Trump appointees.The problem, McGrath says, is that this is exactly backwards: The majority leader is the one preventing many of Trump’s central 2016 campaign promises from becoming reality.
“A lot of the reasons you voted for Trump—‘drain the swamp’? Folks, you can’t drain the swamp until you get rid of Mitch McConnell,” McGrath said. “That’s the case I’m going to be making.” “He has actually said a few fairly bipartisan, measured things — like, hey, let’s reimport drugs across the border from Canada. Hey, let’s have Medicare renegotiate prices,” McGrath said. “Who stops all that? Mitch McConnell does, folks. Why? Because he gets the most money from big pharma than any other member of Congress, at least in the last cycle.”
“It’s a different race, it’s a different cycle, and I’m running against somebody who is completely different,” she said. “Mitch McConnell is not well liked. Many Kentuckians feel that he has left them behind, that he is a part of the D.C. sort of swamp, the system that has left so many Kentuckians behind, that is really dysfunctional.”
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