Amy McGrath blasts Mitch McConnell for tweeting out an image of a mock graveyard with a tombstone bearing McGrath's name just hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. McGrath is the most prominent Democrat vying to take on McConnell in 2020.
Amy McGrath, the most prominent Democrat vying to take on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the 2020 Kentucky Senate race, blasted the senator Monday for tweeting out an image of a mock graveyard with a tombstone bearing McGrath's name just hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed and many more injured.
At 6:35 p.m. Saturday, McConnell's Senate campaign account tweeted an image of a fake graveyard with tombstones, seemingly made from cardboard, that read"R.I.P" above various people and ideals that McConnell has defeated, so to speak, or plans to defeat. McConnell campaign yard signs are among the tombstones as well.
"More lies from the McConnell camp," Terry Sebastian of the McGrath campaign told ABC News in an email."They are just trying to distract folks from the sick and ugly side of the campaign they’ve been running where they seem proud of calling themselves 'Grim Reaper' and 'Cocaine Mitch' and promotes images of a gravestone of his opponent. They are the worst of what politics has to offer.
The photo was taken at the 139th annual Fancy Farm picnic, an event in the Kentucky community on the first Saturday of every August that features political speeches, barbecuing and boasts thousands of attendees. It's also a fundraiser for St. Jerome Catholic Church.
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