Amy McGrath: 'You can't drain the swamp until you get rid of Mitch McConnell'

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This is over a month old but her strategy is interesting.




McGrath: ‘You can’t drain the swamp until you get rid of Mitch McConnell’

To win in Kentucky, Amy McGrath will need to attract support from Trump voters. How? By arguing that McConnell is blocking big pieces of his agenda.


https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/20/amy-mcgrath-mcconnell-kentucky-senate-interview-071621


By ZACK STANTON 11/20/2019 05:15 AM EST


Amy McGrath knows the image Mitch McConnell has: the steely, cold-but-effective master of the Senate. The tactician who will win at all costs, and who has quietly gone about enacting major pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda and filling the federal bench

The problem, McGrath says, is that this is exactly backwards: The majority leader is the one preventing many of Trump’s central 2016 campaign promises from becoming reality.


“For voters, when they cast a vote for Donald Trump, he said a lot of big things,” McGrath said in an interview for POLITICO’s Women Rule podcast. “He said, ‘We’re going to do big things on infrastructure.’ He said, ‘I’m going to take it to the pharmaceutical industries and I’m going to bring down drug prices.’ He said he was going to fix healthcare. He said all of these things, and for a lot of those things, they haven’t gotten done actually because of Mitch McConnell.”

McGrath, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to take on McConnell in the 2020 general election, knows the political reality of Kentucky. She knows that it’s possible for a Democrat to win statewide in Kentucky during the Trump era — just look at Andy Beshear’s victory over Gov. Matt Bevin earlier this month. But she also knows that in order for a Democrat to be victorious in a state where Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 30 points, they must attract a fair number of Trump supporters, too.

And so while national Democrats gnash their teeth about McConnell’s cold efficacy in supporting the Trump agenda, in Kentucky, McGrath’s challenge is, in part, convincing Trump voters that McConnell has been an obstacle to the things that attracted voters to Trump in the first place.

“A lot of the reasons you voted for Trump—‘drain the swamp’? Folks, you can’t drain the swamp until you get rid of Mitch McConnell,” McGrath said. “That’s the case I’m going to be making.”



McGrath says that if she unseats McConnell and Trump wins a second term in the White House, she can and will work with the president.

“He has actually said a few fairly bipartisan, measured things — like, hey, let’s reimport drugs across the border from Canada. Hey, let’s have Medicare renegotiate prices,” McGrath said. “Who stops all that? Mitch McConnell does, folks. Why? Because he gets the most money from big pharma than any other member of Congress, at least in the last cycle.”...................................................

[CincyDem]

1. Mitch is like the bathtub plug. Gotta go to empty the tub. n/t

[PatrickforO]

5. Or, to use another analogy, he's a cork in the asshole of progress.

And until that baby is removed the body gets sicker and sicker.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. Turtles live in the swamp.

Eom.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. ditch Moscow Mitch!

[polichick]

4. A national discussion about why he does what he does and for whom he works...

...is long overdue. Pundits and other politicians talk about him as if his actions are normal politics.

The SC itself should have refused to accept a stolen seat.

The normalization of corruption at all levels is really scary.

[kimbutgar]

6. And how has he become a multimillionaire all these years working in the Senate?

Obviously he hasn’t been paid that much of a senate salary.

He has been profiting and getting kickbacks for legislation Benefiting his corporate donors and is crooked. His Democratic opponent needs to ask him why he has made so much money working as a “ public servant”.

Prior to 2007 his net worth was 3 million now it’s over 33 million. Some of it was inheritance from Elaine Chao but the rest I wonder where he got it? And don’t get me started on those underhanded deals Chao has been giving in Kentucky that helps turtle.


https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/mitch-mcconnell-net-worth/

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[dchill]

7. Go Mitch, go! Please!

[Stuart G]

8. It won't be easy..but I will send as much as I can. I wonder when is the best time to send $$?

[Fritz Walter]

9. I still think this campaign ad is worth consideration

It’s the one that #MoscowMitch used to slither his way into Congress several decades ago.

McGrath should remind Kentucky voters that Yertle McTurtle’s accusations of missed votes and obsessive focus on fund-raising cut both ways.

I do like one comment/suggestion made on YewToob: instead of bloodhounds, the remake should include Siberian huskies.

[Initech]

11. Can't drain the swamp if there's a clog in the pipe!

And that clog happens to be a turtle-like human named Mitch McConnell, aka Moscow Mitch. Fuck you Mitch.