{"id":14115,"date":"2025-10-06T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcgrath-announces-second-bid-for-mcconnells-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:16:38","slug":"mcgrath-announces-second-bid-for-mcconnells-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcgrath-announces-second-bid-for-mcconnells-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"McGrath announces second bid for McConnell\u2019s Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Amy McGrath on Monday officially launched another Kentucky Senate bid, aiming to take the seat held by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath, a retired fighter pilot, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmyMcGrathKY\/status\/1975153278938664963\" target=\"_blank\"><u>announced her candidacy on X,<\/u><\/a> saying the Bluegrass state deserves a senator \u201cbattle-tested and ready to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what courage looks like. Right now, way too many politicians don&#8217;t, and Americans are being thrown under the bus by cowards in Washington without the moral backbone to serve our nation with honor,\u201d McGrath said in her announcement.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, McGrath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/09\/amy-mcgrath-senate-challenge-mitch-mcconnell-1574035\" target=\"_blank\"><u>ran against McConnell<\/u><\/a> in one of the most expensive senate races in Kentucky history. In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-score\/2019\/07\/10\/the-mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-kentucky-brawl-676958\" target=\"_blank\"><u>she raised nearly $8 million<\/u><\/a> in her House run. She narrowly lost that race to Republican Rep. Andy Barr.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/20\/congress\/mitch-mcconnell-will-retires-from-senate-00205151\" target=\"_blank\"><u>McConnell announced his retirement in February<\/u><\/a>, the pool of candidates vying for his seat has grown.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to McGrath, state Rep. Pamela Stevenson, attorney and former Secret Service agent Logan Forsythe, and Joel Willett, an ex-CIA and military officer, will face off in the Democratic primary. Barr, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and businessman Nate Morris will face off in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy McGrath on Monday officially launched another Kentucky Senate bid, aiming to take the seat held by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell. McGrath, a retired fighter pilot, announced her candidacy on X, saying the Bluegrass state deserves a senator \u201cbattle-tested and ready to fight.\u201d \u201cI know what courage looks like. Right now, way too many politicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}