Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Democratic challenger Amy McGrath canceled her appearance on MSNBC’s Sunday evening program Kasie DC. The campaign’s decision for her not to go on the shows comes amid a bumpy start for her campaign.
Kasie DC, hosted by Kasie Hunt, tweeted out McGrath’s planned appearance on Friday, but when the show’s Twitter account named its guests hours before the show was scheduled to begin her name was left off the list.
Hunt addressed it on the show saying, “I was planning on asking McGrath about [her 2018 House] race and her fight against Mitch McConnell tonight but she canceled her appearance on our show at the last minute. That invitation does remain open, and, of course, Mr. Leader, we would welcome you, Senator McConnell, any time as well.”
The day McGrath announced her candidacy last Tuesday, she was asked to explain her 2017 comparison between Donald Trump’s election and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, during an interview on CNN with Jake Tapper.
Despite the negative attention from that interview, the retired Marine fight pilot received $2.5 million in donations within 24 hours of her campaign launch, breaking the record for first-day campaign fundraising.
How bad was Amy McGrath’s #KYSen rollout this week? She announced her run on MSNBC this past Monday and she now appears to have pulled out of her Sunday night MSNBC hit pic.twitter.com/UWX8wMInLX
— Jesse Hunt (@JJHunt10) July 14, 2019
She received more criticism a day later when she told the Courier-Journal that she would have voted in favor of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, but then changed her mind on social media, after facing backlash for the remark.
“I was asked earlier today about Judge Brett Kavanaugh and I answered based upon his qualifications to be on the Supreme Court,” she tweeted. “But upon further reflection and further understanding of his record, I would have voted no.”
McGrath’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
