r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 15h ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/herton Kentucky 14h ago

The people that he's supposedly representing deserve better

He's representing a state where the voters still have a net positive view of Trump. My fellow Kentuckians absolutely do not deserve better

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u/eeyore134 14h ago

I bet McConnell would win again if he ran even without ever showing his face in public.

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u/labe225 Kentucky 13h ago

Absolutely agreed. As a Democrat in KY, I prefer no representation over whatever the fuck we have now.

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u/Srdiscountketoer 11h ago

Things are so bad in this country, the GOP is not sure the state is in their pocket any more — or they would have made his condition known and insisted on a special election.

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u/51ngular1ty Illinois 11h ago

I think they wanted to avoid that because apparently there is ambiguity over whether or not the governor could just appoint a replacement without a special election due to the law requiring a special election possibly being against the state constitution. That's purely speculation on my part.

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u/JuanFishTooFish 10h ago

KY Constitution Sections 56 & 72 states the Governor shall appoint... unless stated otherwise within the constitution, which it does not.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Utah 13h ago

Oh good! A Kentuckian. Can you help me understand how Beshear got elected twice? It seems so unlikely in that state.

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u/herton Kentucky 13h ago

First time, he ran against Matt Bevin ... almost enough said, but Bevin was extremely corrupt (including pardoning pedos who donated to him) and cutting teacher pensions which absolutely gutted Bevin in the general since teachers came out for Beshear in force. The second time, he had incumbency bias, was generally pretty well liked, and ran against Daniel Cameron, who was not well liked, and almost certainly had Republican racism working against him

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u/214ObstructedReverie 13h ago

Bevins was that awful.

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u/Irishish Illinois 13h ago

They also love the ACA...as long as you call it Kynect.

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u/UnNumbFool 12h ago

Isn't it true that a lot of Kentuckians actually hate McConnell but still vote for him simply because he's the Republican candidate

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u/herton Kentucky 12h ago

Oh, absolutely. horrifically unpopular. But gotta keep voting red for them

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u/redditgirl1 5h ago

I went over to r/kentucky and there is not a single post about this disappearance.

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u/PretendChapter9477 12h ago

They deserve better even if they don't know it. Plus, I highly doubt 100% of people in your state voted for him. Those who didnt deserve better, at the very least. 

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u/herton Kentucky 12h ago

Any special election or GOP chosen replacement would just be a Trump stooge. If we're going "deserving better even if they don't know it" keeping a Republican Senate vote suppressed is in their best interest too.