Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2018, looks to take on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2018, launched a Senate bid Tuesday, hoping to be the Democratic nominee to take on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the 2020 election.
In her announcement video, McGrath, a born and raised Kentuckian, tells the story of when she wrote to her senator at 13 years old, during a time when women weren’t allowed to have combat roles in the military, to tell him she wanted to be a fighter pilot, and that"women should be able to do that.
McConnell’s campaign tweeted out a response to McGrath’s announcement, writing,"Welcome to the race, Amy," with a video focusing on McGrath’s more liberal policy stances on issues like immigration, health care and reproductive rights, that ends by asserting she’s"too liberal for Kentucky." Appearing on MSNBC Tuesday morning, McGrath recognized McConnell as a"very formidable" politician, but said that in 2016, Kentuckians voted for Trump because the president"promised to bring back jobs" and lower drug prices.
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