LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Team Mitch today released a new ad highlighting how Amy McGrath’s support for packing the Supreme Court mirrors the position of New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who McGrath would vote to make majority leader. Despite her attempts to hide her support for court packing during last week’s debate against Senator Mitch McConnell, “Court” shows McGrath declaring her full support for Chuck Schumer’s liberal agenda, including confirming activist judges to the Supreme Court.
“There is not a bit of difference between Extreme Amy McGrath and the far-left Washington Democrats who want to pack the courts to push through their radical agenda,” said McConnell Senate Committee press secretary Kate Cooksey. “McGrath did not hesitate to boost Chuck Schumer’s extreme court packing option, a move that would enable liberals to erase Kentucky values. Working with Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and other Washington Democrats, Amy McGrath would confirm activist, pro-abortion judges, defund the police, wipe out the coal industry, and take away our Second Amendment rights.”
Click here to watch “Court.”
SCRIPT:
ANNOUNCER: On packing the Supreme Court with liberal judges, extreme Amy McGrath sounds extremely familiar.
CHUCK SCHUMER: Once we win the majority, God willing, everything is on the table.
ANNOUNCER: McGrath agrees. She’d let the radical left pack the Supreme Court.
AMY MCGRATH: That’s definitely an option.
AMY MCGRATH: I am further left, I am more progressive than anybody in the State of Kentucky.
ANNOUNCER: Extreme Amy McGrath, the wrong path for Kentucky.
MITCH MCCONNELL: I’m Mitch McConnell, and I approve this message.
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BACKGROUND:
- During a recent campaign stop, Amy McGrath said packing the Supreme Court is “definitely an option.” (WDRB, 9/28/2020)
- A recent poll from the New York Times and Siena College found that 58% of likely voters are opposed to packing the Supreme Court. (Fox News, 10/20/2020)
- During a fundraiser for her 2018 House race, McGrath proclaimed to a Massachusetts crowd that she is “further left” and “more progressive than anybody in the State of Kentucky.” (Lexington Herald-Leader, 8/20/2018)