Morris is running as a pro-Trump candidate to end the “reign of Mitch McConnell” and his “puppets,” he said. Since entering the hotly contested primary to replace the retiring McConnell, a key Bluegrass State newsletter has declared Morris the “front-runner for a new era” and admitted they “may have underestimated Morris in our previous analysis.”
The Morris campaign has called on his primary opponents Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) and former state attorney general Daniel Cameron (R) to have the Kentucky Republican Party to rescind their plan to honor McConnell with a lifetime achievement award at the Lincoln Dinner in August.
“The fact that our own state party wants to give Mitch McConnell a lifetime achievement award after his relentless attacks and sabotage of President Trump is insane, and I won’t stand for it,” Morris said.
Subsequently, McConnell loyalists have descended upon the MAGA candidate.
Barr’s June 18 fundraiser featured John McCarthy, a GOP national committeeman, who describes himself as an “avid fundraiser and advisor” to McConnell.
Former Kentucky state Sen. Damon Thayer said, in what was likely a barely veiled reference to Morris, “If you’re a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate say, from Kentucky, & you’re dunking on Mitch McConnell, particularly THIS week, well, you might try for enough self-awareness to be a little embarrassed.”
Thayer blamed President Donald Trump for the protests and riots on January 6, 2021.
Trey Grayson — a McConnell protégé and former Kentucky secretary of state — said Morris’s attacks against McConnell are “ferocious” and “unfortunate to watch.”
Grayson also called Trump’s concerns with the 2020 presidential election “crazy” at the time.
“He appears to be picking his own team based upon the criteria that I’ll call the lie about the 2020 election,” Grayson said in October 2021. “I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this.”
Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on X @SeanMoran3.
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