Amy McGrath, the former fighter pilot who ran for a GOP-held House seat as a Democrat in 2018, said she is challenging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky Senate seat
WASHINGTON—Amy McGrath, the former Marine fighter pilot whose effort last year to win a GOP-held House seat as a Democrat came up short, announced on Tuesday that she would challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in next year’s Senate race.
She made her announcement through a video detailing what she described as the Republican leader’s failures to respond to the everyday hardships faced by ordinary people, from paying off student-loan debt to combating black-lung disease developed while working in coal...
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