Amy McGrath has decided she would have voted NO--on Kavanaugh.................

[riversedge]

Amy McGrath Verified account @AmyMcGrathKY
1h1 hour ago

I know I disappointed many today with my initial answer on how I would have voted on Brett Kavanaugh. I will make mistakes and always own up to them. The priority is defeating Mitch McConnell.
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Amy McGrath
‏Verified account @AmyMcGrathKY
2h2 hours ago

I was asked earlier today about Judge Brett Kavanaugh and I answered based upon his qualifications to be on the Supreme Court. But upon further reflection and further understanding of his record, I would have voted no.

Link to tweet

[Ligyron]

2. A candidate who admits being wrong?

She'll never make it as a politician.

[ehrnst]

9. IKR? If you are anyone but one particular candidate and you change your position on anything

you are a WAFFLER/PANDERER.

If you are, however, that one particular candidate, then it's called "evolving."

[gibraltar72]

3. Not a great start.

[kimbutgar]

4. I hope she is not weak like Democratic lite, Allison Grimes

[kentuck]

5. Well, that disqualifies her...

She could not possibly be for Kavanaugh and be acceptable.

There can be no learning curve.

[madville]

6. She managed to piss off both sides in one day

Impressive. Trump won KY by 30% in 2016, she will be lucky to get within 15% of McConnell in 2020 regardless with Trump on the ticket again.

[riversedge]

13. She has a very rough road ahead of her. But she is smart and strong and will old turtle face

a run for his money.

[JonLP24]

7. She was also against Kavanaugh when she ran for House

[ehrnst]

8. She's clearly threatening some people - Cenk Uygur is on the warpath against her on Twitter. (nt)

[Celerity]

10. Bredeson (a poor candidate for the TN Senate seat in 2018) did the same thing, and got

smashed as he self-suppressed his own Democratic voting base. Bad start for McGrath, hopefully she makes no more mistakes like this.

[kentuck]

11. Being for Kavanaugh, in KY, is probably not a mistake...

It actually may gain her votes.

Doesn't sit well with DUers though.

[Celerity]

14. Gain votes from who? She has already reversed her position as well.

Rethug voters will not switch (certainly not in any great numbers), and some in our base are now pissed off. Hopefully this is long forgotten by the time November 2020 rolls around (IF McGrath is even the nominee).

[StarfishSaver]

16. It won't sit well for most Democrats

If she wants to beat McConnell, she can't rely on Republicans to vote for her.

She's not going to beat him by being promising to vote like him but just do it more collegially. And while she doesn't have to turn into AOC, she definitely can't expect to beat him by being a slightly more liberal version of him. Just ask Alison Lundergan Grimes.

[maxrandb]

12. Remember, she's trying to win in a state

Where 67% of voters would be excited to send their underage daughters to an Epstein/Kavanaugh hosted kegger where Donnie Shit for Brains would be the guest of honor.

She's going to make some mistakes. It's hard to appeal to toothless morons who sit around all day chugging beer and bragging about how good their sisters are in bed

[StarfishSaver]

15. She's running against the guy who put Kavanaugh and scores of other unqualified judges on the courte

She should have been prepared for this question and known how to answer it.

She needs to up her judges game if she's going to successfully take on McConnell. At least this happened early, but she can't afford many more of these missteps.

[Duppers]

17. Anyone in this thread criticizing her have any better

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Ideas about our #1 objective: Beating Mitch McConnell?

Dang folks, stop the circular firing squads. These purity tests are killing us!

[Duppers]

18. Adding: Anyone else running against McConnell??

No, so let's pull in the same direction, folks.

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