Senator Mitch McConnell joined WVLK’s Larry Glover Radio last week to discuss his reelection campaign, how radical the Democratic Party has become, and what is at stake for Kentucky this November.
Here’s what you missed:
On Amy McGrath’s support for the Democratic Party’s far-left agenda…
“What they were hiding, of course, is their agenda for America, which is a radical, left-wing agenda that they’ve all signed onto in their platform … They got rid of the so-called Hyde Amendment that’s has been a part of law for 30 years preventing federal taxpayer money from being spent to pay for abortions. They’ve now switched positions on that and decided it’s okay for the taxpayers to pay for abortions … This is pretty hard left. My opponent has endorsed all of the positions. She’s endorsed, for example, the House-passed $3 trillion stimulus bill a couple of months ago. You’d be interested to know in that bill there’s more money for Puerto Rico than there was for Kentucky …
“In primetime they want to act like they’re moderates, but if you look at what they’re advocating, look at the platform, look at the positions they’ve taken, there’s nothing moderate about today’s Democratic Party. There also aren’t any moderate Democrats left. They’ve all signed up for this. Bernie Sanders may not have won the nomination, but he won the debate over what the Democratic Party ought to look like and be like … They intend to fundamentally change this country into something it’s never been before.”
On the danger of Democrats eliminating the Senate’s legislative filibuster…
“[Democrats] don’t want anything to get in the way of their radical agenda to change America overnight. And, of course, the Senate rule that slows things down would be inconvenient for them. And every single Democratic candidate against Republican Senators this year — every single one of them including my opponent — has promised to get rid of the legislative filibuster, which means they will steamroll a left-wing agenda right through.”
On how Senator McConnell enables Kentucky to punch above its weight in Congress…
“If my opponent were to be successful, her first vote would be for Chuck Schumer from New York to be the majority leader of the Senate, transferring that power from Kentucky to New York. And you know, right now, of the four Congressional leaders, I’m the only one who’s not from New York or California. So, Kentucky would suffer a significant loss of influence were my opponent to be elected …
“Do we want a freshman Senator whose first vote in the Senate will transfer the majority leader’s job from Kentucky to New York and start from scratch? Or do we want to continue the leader of one of the two parties in the Senate who’s in the middle of every big decision made in our country?”