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12. "Kentucky makeover: Amy McGrath challenges Mitch McConnell as a pro-Trump Democrat"

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/09/amy-mcgrath-seeks-makeover-pro-trump-democrat/1680960001/

McConnell, she said, has prevented President Donald Trump from accomplishing much of his agenda during his first two and a half years in office.

"If you think about why Kentuckians voted for Trump, they wanted to drain the swamp, and Trump said that he was going to do that," McGrath said during an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "Trump promised to bring back jobs. He promised to lower drug prices for so many Kentuckians. And that is very important.

"And you know what? Who stops them along the way? Who stops the president from doing these things? Mitch McConnell. And I think that that’s very important, and that’s going to be my message – the things that Kentuckians voted for Trump for are not being done. He’s not able to get it done because of Senator McConnell."

McGrath, 44, embraced the president in a way that is bound to agitate some progressives voters, but it is an early window into her acknowledgment that Trump's popularity in the Bluegrass State, where he pummeled Hillary Clinton by 30 percentage points, is nearly impenetrable.

McGrath had a drastically different take on Trump when she described her feelings about the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.