Amid all of the grilling and fireworks, you may have missed a development that could fundamentally impact the fight for the Senate majority this fall: Amy McGrath beat Charles Booker to win the Kentucky Democratic primary | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
What!?, you say. Mitch McConnell isn't going to lose this fall!Which, in the main, is probably right! McConnell is a very able politician. It's how he has won six times in Kentucky and is currently the most influential Republican -- aside from President Donald Trump -- in Washington. But McGrath doesn't need to beat McConnell to reshape the Senate map.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Winning, when it comes to McConnell, isn't necessarily the goal for Senate Democrats as they try to net the three seats or four they need for the majority. Senate Democrats don't need Kentucky to get to the majority. In fact, there are roughly a dozen GOP seats that would likely fall before McConnell loses.Instead, keeping McConnell occupied on his own race has to be Democrats' goal. And McGrath makes that much more likely.
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