LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Amy McGrath on Saturday night framed the upcoming election as a fight for “the soul and the fabric of our country,” and said Congress needs members willing to stand up to the nation’s leaders when they are “in the wrong.”
McGrath, a former fighter pilot challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr in Kentucky’s 6th District, appeared to take aim at President Donald Trump without mentioning him by name in a speech to an energized crowd of Kentucky Democrats.
Declaring that integrity and character matter, McGrath said the country needs leaders who don’t promote divisiveness or mislead people.
“It is literally about the soul and the fabric of our country,” she said in summing up what she believes is at stake in the November election. “It is literally about who we are as Americans. Who we want to be. The kinds of leaders we want our children to have in our country. That is what this election is about.”
And she took aim at Barr for what she sees as the Republican incumbent’s unwillingness to stand up to Trump when he disagrees with his actions.
“Will we elect leaders who have the courage to step up to the plate and get things done for the good of the nation … who will do what’s right even when the leader of their party is in the wrong and deep down they know it?” she said.
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