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Amy McGrath, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate who bought walloped by incumbent GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2020, shedding by almost 20%, has mounted a bid to switch the long-serving Republican lawmaker who is just not in search of re-election in 2026.
“Our democracy is below siege, cowards in Washington are bowing to Donald Trump, and Kentuckians are paying the worth,” she wrote in a submit on X, which additionally featured a marketing campaign video wherein she declared, “What we’re seeing on this nation from this president, not regular, harmful, for Kentuckians, and for all People.”
Previous to getting trounced by McConnell in 2020, McGrath misplaced a 2018 Home race to incumbent Republican Rep. Andy Barr.
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Amy McGrath onstage throughout the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit — Day 1 at Lexington Marriott Metropolis Middle on April 7, 2022, in Lexington, Ky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Photographs for Concordia)
McConnell has held the seat since 1985.
The Bluegrass State has not elected a Democratic senator for greater than three a long time.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives for a vote on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 28, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
The final time Kentucky voters picked a Democrat to characterize them within the higher chamber was when incumbent Sen. Wendell Ford received re-election in 1992.
McGrath was “the primary girl within the Marine Corps to fly a fight mission in an F/A-18,” in keeping with her marketing campaign web site, which notes that in “20 years of service, Amy flew 89 fight missions.”
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(L-R) Aquilino Gonell, Amy McGrath and Pete Dominick attend the 2024 IAVA Heroes Gala at The Present at Chelsea Piers on Nov, 7, 2024, in New York Metropolis (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Photographs for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America)
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She is going to face competitors within the Democratic major from others on the political left who’re additionally vying for the Senate seat, together with state Rep. Pamela Stevenson, the Kentucky Home minority flooring chief, and others.
