Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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The contest also will test the power of incumbency against a call for generational change along with a measure of whether Trump's popularity is transferable. She is attempting to repeat her viral moment with a new video , one that leans hard on idealism while also attacking McConnell as the embodiment of a dysfunctional Washington.McGrath also reprises one element of her first video, pointedly noting that when, as a 13-year-old girl, she wrote to McConnell to make the case that women should be able to fly in combat, the senator never wrote back.
McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden said McGrath lost in 2018"in a Democratic wave election because she is an extreme liberal who is far out of touch with Kentuckians." Trump also is expected to actively support McConnell and to try to muddy McGrath at least as much as Barr did.
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