The ‘Ditch Mitch’ McConnell Campaign Is Just Democrats Lighting Their Money On Fire

Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath raised more than $2.5 million in the first 24 hours of her campaign against Mitch McConnell. It is reportedly the most money ever raised in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign.

The people who donated may as well have lit their money on fire. Unless Mitch McConnell is found to have dated teenagers while in his thirties, McGrath is losing, probably in a landslide.

McGrath is trying to defeat an incumbent senator in a presidential election year in a state that will almost certainly vote for the president of the incumbent’s party, which is a historical longshot. The specifics of this race look even worse. McGrath lost a House race in 2018 in Kentucky’s least-Republican district by more than 10,000 votes in what was nationally a really good midterm for Democrats. Indeed, she lost while raising $8 million to Rep. Andy Barr’s $5 million. By contrast, in 2014, McConnell beat a popular statewide officeholder by 16 points.

As noted Twitter trollmaster Comfortably Smug observes, Dems seem poised to “pull an Ossoff,” referring to the Democrats’ record-shattering loss of the 2017 special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district. Democrats appear to have learned no lesson from the fact the seat narrowly flipped their way in 2018 outside the frenzied atmosphere of the special election.

Why? As the Joker put it while literally burning a huge pile of cash in “The Dark Knight” (2008): “It’s not about money. It’s about sending a message…” Here, the message is #DitchMitch and so the money must be burned, even though it won’t add much to the hashtag.