Nine days after he stopped speaking mid-sentence in a news conference in Washington, D.C., raising concerns about his health, Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to Kentucky to take part in the annual Fancy Farm Picnic — and vowed it wouldn’t be his last.
McConnell, the Senate’s Republican leader, addressed a crowd at the Graves County GOP Breakfast in West Kentucky Saturday morning. His remarks focused on when he came into power in Kentucky politics — a time when he was a member of the minority party — and said Republicans are now close to controlling the governor’s mansion as well as the Kentucky General Assembly.
“We owe it to the next generation of Kentuckians to finish the job this November,” he said, referring to the 2023 governor’s race.
Voters will decide between Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron , a McConnell protégé, and incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
McConnell described what he sees as a recent rise in Republican power nationwide. During the Obama administration, he said, rural Americans switched from reliably Democratic voters to supporting Republicans at the ballot box after, he said, figuring out the other party was led by “East Coast elitists.”
Source: hoptownchronicle.org
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