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The race for former GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s seat continues to be a battle as declared candidates debate who has closer ties to the outgoing senator.
Congressman Andy Barr, former gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron and businessman Nate Morris, who are all currently running for his soon-vacant seat, have not held back when it comes to accusing each other of who’s closer to the longtime senator.
Cameron, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump in his Kentucky governor’s race defeat to Democrat Andy Beshear in 2023, served as legal counsel to McConnell from 2015 to 2017. President Trump noted in a Truth Social post that “Daniel Cameron lost because he couldn’t alleviate the stench of Mitch McConnell.”
Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Shelby County Fairgrounds in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on Nov. 3, 2023. (Fox News/Brandon Gillespie)
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However, the former gubernatorial candidate zeroed in on Nate Morris’s ties to McConnell in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Nate Morris has an authenticity problem,” Cameron told Fox. “He got his start in politics working for McConnell.”
“Now, he pretends there is some virtue in taking cheap shots at an 83-year-old man,” Cameron added. “Nate’s not brave, he’s an opportunist. That explains why he thought it was a good idea to build a company that was opposed to the America First Agenda in every way, from hiring Obama strategist David Plouffe to sit on his board to pushing radical DEI policies and supporting BLM.”
Morris served as an intern during his sophomore year of college in McConnell’s office in 2000 and has publicly donated to the former leader’s senate committee, per public filings, on several occasions. One donation included a personal maximum of $2,600 in 2014.
Chairman and CEO of Rubicon, Nate Morris, attends the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit reception at Lexington Marriott City Center on April 6, 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images for Concordia)
“I’m proud to be the only candidate in this race fighting for President Trump’s agenda, not Mitch McConnell’s,” Morris told Fox News Digital.
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Conor McGuinness, a spokesperson for Morris, honed in on both Barr and Cameron in a statement to Fox.
“Just last year Andy Barr went on…
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