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McConnell Releases Damning Footage of Dem After She Announces Bid for His Senate Seat

 By G.S. Hair  July 9, 2019 at 9:24am
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There’s a reason why Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is a legislative legend.

He is tough as nails and doesn’t play games.

Yet McConnell keeps his calm and maintains an excellent sense of humor while he’s kicking some leftist butt. And his Tuesday morning video illustrates perfectly all of those things.

First, a little background: McConnell is the Senate majority leader and, until Tuesday morning, remained unchallenged for his 2020 Senate seat. His new Democratic challenger, Amy McGrath, lost her 2018 bid for state representative.

McGrath sees McConnell as the epitome of the evils of modern politics. “Everything that’s wrong with Washington had to start somewhere—it started with him,” McGrath tweeted Tuesday.

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Maybe McGrath, like a typical leftist, is furious at McConnell for his helping President Donald Trump — or maybe she’s still upset at McConnell for not responding to her teenage letter more than two decades ago. (Dang, girl. Grudge-hold much?)

But her announcement was immediately met by the most McConnell of McConnell moves.

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His twitter account, known as “Team Mitch,” released an epic video to introduce the real McGrath to the nation. The caption reads, “Welcome to the race, Amy.” I can almost see McConnell smirking as I read it.

But the video is more than a sarcastic, funny attempt at political memes-manship.

It strikes at the core of who McGrath is by replaying her own leftist words.

“I am further left … I am more progressive than anybody in the state of Kentucky,” McGrath said in the opening seconds of the video.

“I think the wall is stupid. I really do,” McGrath said later in the video.

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And McConnell was just getting going. He shows McGrath endorsing single-payer universal health care, praising the merits of abortion and bragging on her “progressive” agenda.

But the most damning part of the video is footage of McGrath comparing her feelings toward Trump’s 2016 victory as the same feelings she had when America-hating terrorists killed almost 3,000 and injured 6,000 more on 9/11.

I’m not a Democratic political consultant, but likening Trump’s presidential win to a deadly terrorist attack isn’t exactly the best way to cozy up with the traditional values of the Kentucky heartland.

I don’t know how McGrath’s campaign will end, but it’s not off to a promising start.

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G.S. Hair
Former Executive Editor, The Western Journal
G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal.
G.S. Hair is the former executive editor of The Western Journal and vice president of digital content of Liftable Media.

After graduating law school from the Cecil C. Humphries School of Law, Mr. Hair spent a decade as an attorney practicing at the trial and appellate level in Arkansas and Tennessee. He represented clients in civil litigation, contractual disputes, criminal defense and domestic matters. He spent a significant amount of time representing indigent clients who could not afford private counsel in civil or criminal matters. A desire for justice and fairness was a driving force in Mr. Hair's philosophy of representation. Inspired by Christ’s role as an advocate on our behalf before God, he often represented clients who had no one else to fight on their behalf.

Mr. Hair has been a consultant for Republican political candidates and has crafted grassroots campaign strategies to help mobilize voters in staunchly Democrat regions of the Eastern United States.

In early 2015, he began writing for Conservative Tribune. After the site was acquired by Liftable Media, he shut down his law practice, moved to Arizona and transitioned into the position of site director. He then transitioned to vice president of content. In 2018, after Liftable Media folded all its brands into The Western Journal, he was named executive editor. His mission is to advance conservative principles and be a positive and truthful voice in the media.

He is married and has four children. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
Birthplace
South Carolina
Education
Homeschooled (and proud of it); B.A. Mississippi College; J.D. University Of Memphis
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
Languages Spoken
English
Topics of Expertise
Culture, Faith, Politics




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