Just as Democrat Amy McGrath moved into a statistical dead heat with Mitch McConnell, Bernie Sanders and AOC has placed a large dent in her campaign as they both endorsed the far left candidate, Charles Booker. McGrath has positioned herself as a moderate Democrat but she now may be forced to move to the left to keep Booker from taking all of those voters without a fight.
McGrath is a former fighter pilot and although the polls show a dead heat, does anyone remember when Wendy Davis was in a statistical tie or the lead against Republican Glen Abbott? In the end she lost by over 20% in the voting.
Bernie Sanders said:
“As Louisville has become an epicenter of national tragedy and protests due to the police murders of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, Charles has shown leadership by showing up on the frontlines. He was an endorser of our campaign for president and supports progressive policies such as criminal justice reform, Medicare for All and getting big money out of politics.”
You are witnessing a movement.
How do we beat Mitch McConnell, you ask?
Three words: Not Me. US! https://t.co/0y2riN2Qhk
— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) June 10, 2020
Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) is running for Senate & building the kind of principled, inclusive, and winning coalition in Kentucky that can inspire positive change.
The US Senate will be a better place with him in it. I’m proud to endorse him.
Let’s go:https://t.co/yocF7U9Os5
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2020
“I’m running for U.S. Senate because, in this crisis, Kentucky needs a real Democrat to take on Mitch McConnell,” Booker, in his first statewide TV ad, said this week, according to the Lexington Herald Leader. “Someone who will fight to guarantee health care and living wages for all, and not help Trump just get his way.”
In the same ad, Booker also calls McGrath a “pro-Trump Democrat.”
McConnell, 78, is Kentucky’s longest-serving U.S. senator, having held his seat since January 1985. His campaign responded Tuesday to news of the Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez endorsements of Booker.