Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won reelection in Kentucky, defeating Amy McGrath, a retired Marine combat pilot.
A panel of hosts and guests broke the news on Fox News on Tuesday evening, confirming that the Republican stalwart who has overseen a record number of federal judge confirmations under President Trump will serve six more years.
“Mitch McConnell, we now can project that he will win that Senate race against Amy McGrath, the Democrat,” Bret Baier said.
The Associated Press and others also called the race for McConnell, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984.
Fox News host Martha MacCallum noted McConnell’s work to confirm a series of judges, which has been seen as a major victory during the first term of the Trump administration.
“He has been at the helm of one of President Trump’s most fervent errands, which has been loading up federal judges and the federal bench with conservative judges,” MacCallum said.
Fox News host Dana Perino noted that Democrats, who spent big in the race, picked a poor candidate in a race that was going to be tough given McConnell’s delivery on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Trump’s also had two other picks, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, confirmed to the high court during his first term, a process overseen by McConnell.
“She raised $100 million dollars, and you don’t see Republicans out there clamoring for campaign finance reform because they didn’t raise as much money,” Perino said. “He took it seriously, especially early on, but I think you have to look at the Democrats and say, for Chuck Schumer, the candidate recruitment in that race was really not good.”
According to the nonpartisan research group OpenSecrets, McGrath’s campaign raised a little over $80 million and spent close to $75 million in what was seen as a potentially problematic race for McConnell.
