Amy McGrath Quietly Edits Racist Ads

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — McConnell Senate Committee press secretary Kate Cooksey today released the following statement regarding Amy McGrath’s defense of her racist attack:

“Amy McGrath’s campaign might have new leadership, but it still seems to struggle with spreading racist lies about Senator McConnell’s wife and her family. After admitting Elaine Chao and her family were the targets of the original racist attack, McGrath’s camp is embarrassingly right back to defending this racist rhetoric. Everybody knows that Amy McGrath would not be running this ad if the Chao family looked more like Amy McGrath and her family. McGrath’s desperate, hateful attack is a tell-tale sign of a campaign in free fall.”

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BACKGROUND:
A McGrath campaign spokesman admitted to the Louisville Courier Journal that the original attack was directly targeted at Elaine Chao and her family. (Courier Journal, 8/15/2020)

• “Sebastian, McGrath’s spokesman, countered: ‘… But the facts are the facts. Millions came to McConnell and his wife in recent years from a company whose business was powered by Chinese trade.’”

Amy McGrath claimed, “Mitch made millions from China,” a claim the Washington Post dubbed “grossly misleading” and awarded Three Pinocchios. (Washington Post, 8/10/2020)

• “The story of how McConnell got rich has nothing to do with Chinese trade deals, spycraft or the coronavirus.”
• “To say McConnell ‘made millions from China’ is grossly misleading. American companies do not become less American by establishing successful shipping routes in the South China Sea.”