Candidates in the Senate of Kentucky Skirt McConnell appropriation, clashes on links

The race for the former head of the majority of the GOP Senate Mitch McConnellThe siege of SA is a battle, because the declared candidates debate who have narrower links with the outgoing senator.

The member of the Congress Andy Barr, the former candidate for Governor Daniel Cameron and the businessman Nate Morris, who currently present themselves for his headquarters who accumulate soon, has not retained when it comes to accusing that is closer to the longtime senator.

Cameron, who was approved by President Donald Trump in the defeat of the Kentucky Governor’s race against Democrat Andy Beshear in 2023, was McConnell’s legal advisor from 2015 to 2017. President Trump noted in a Social post of truth which “Daniel Cameron lost because he could not attenuate the stench of Mitch McConnell.”

Kentucky republican prosecutor Daniel Cameron speaks to a crowd of supporters at Shelby County Fairgroups in Shelbyville, Kentucky, November 3, 2023. (Fox News / Brandon Gillespie)

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However, the former governor’s candidate focused on Nate Morris’ ties with McConnell in a declaration to Fox News Digital.

“Nate Morris has a problem of authenticity,” Cameron told Fox. “He made his debut in politics to work for McConnell.”

“Now he claims that there is a certain virtue to take cheap fire from an 83 -year -old man,” added Cameron. “Nate is not courageous, it is an opportunist. This explains why he thought it was a good idea to build a company that was opposed to the order of the first America First agenda in any way, the hiring of the strategist of Obama, David Plouffe.

Morris was an intern during her second year of college in the McConnell office in 2000 and publicly donated to the senatorial committee of the former chief, according to public documents, on several occasions. A donation included a personal maximum of $ 2,600 in 2014.

The president-director of Rubicon, Nate Morris, attended the reception of the Concordia Lexington 2022 summit in the city-nursing center of Lexington Marriott on April 6, 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Images Jon Cherry / Getty for Concordia)

“I am proud to be the only candidate of this race to fight against President Trump’s agenda, not in Mitch McConnell,” Morris told Fox News Digital.

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Conor McGuinness, spokesperson for Morris, perfected both Barr and Cameron in a statement to Fox.

“Last year, Andy Barr went on television to proclaim Mitch McConnell was his” mentor “and said that he would not oppose McConnell as long as he is in office,” said McGuness. “”Last Twitter publication by Daniel Cameron (On a previous account) is a brilliant tribute to his “friend and mentor” Mitch McConnell. The Kentuckians know that Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron are fully possessed subsidiaries of Mitch McConnell and that Nate Morris is the only candidate that Kentuckians can have confidence to end McConnell Inc. “

As for Barr, its initial collection of funds from the Senate campaign presented a certain number of previous donors from McConnell, as seen in a leaflet of events obtained by Fox News Digital, including the National Commissioner of Gop John McCarthy. McCarthy is a state lobbyist for the former head of the Senate and described As “Evide Fundraiser and advisor to the American senator Mitch McConnell”.

Representative Andy Barr, R-Ky., Heads for a meeting of the House Republican Conference with President Donald Trump on the Budget reconciliation bill of the American Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Call Tom Williams / CQ-Roll)

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“Kentucky needs a senator who was in the fight – not to learn at work or jump late on the train,” Barr told Fox News Digital.

“I am the only candidate who in fact helped to deliver the first agenda to America and I stood with President Trump when it counted the most. We need a proven curator who obtains results, not a false trying to mount Maga in the Senate,” added Barr.

McConnell’s reputation in the Bluegrass State is not what it was previously, despite its over 40 years as one of the two American Kentucky senators. The former head of the Senate marked just a 2% “very favorable” Note in June 2024.

He marked a 6% approval note in December 2023.

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President Donald Trump, on the left, and the outgoing senator Mitch McConnell have a controversial relationship. (Photo ap; reuters)

McConnell’s reputation faced strong criticism from the Republicans after Sentence President Donald Trump As “practically and morally responsible for provoking events” occurred on January 6, as well as to vote against the Cabinet Trump named Pete Hegseth for the defense secretary Tulsi Gabbard for the national intelligence director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the secretary, and Lori Chavez-Deremer for the secretary of the secretary.

Fox News Digital contacted the White House and the McConnell Senator office but did not receive answers.

Preston Mizell is a Fox News Digital writer covering Breaking news. History advice can be sent to [email protected] and on x @Mizellpreston