{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"McConnell says Democrats will ruin country if elected &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RZP3kT2vVo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/mcconnell-says-democrats-will-ruin-country-if-elected\/\">McConnell says Democrats will ruin country if elected<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/mcconnell-says-democrats-will-ruin-country-if-elected\/embed\/#?secret=RZP3kT2vVo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;McConnell says Democrats will ruin country if elected&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"RZP3kT2vVo\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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During a fundraising event Saturday evening at the home of Terry and Marion Forcht, in Corbin, McConnell said this year\u2019s campaign is the most important since he took federal office in 1984. \u201cThey (Democrats) are hard left these days,\u201d McConnell told the invitation-only crowd of about 60 people. \u201cThis is not even Bill Clinton\u2019s Democratic party. The only one totally honest about it is Bernie Sanders \u2026 If you look at what they are advocating, there is not much difference in any of them about where they want to take the country.\u201d Sanders, an Independent Senator from Vermont and self-described \u201cDemocratic Socialist\u201d has advocated a national, government-run health care program, among other measures. McConnell said Democrats, who already control a majority in the House of Representatives, want to gain control of the U.S. Senate and Presidency, then maintain control through a few measures \u2014 by admitting the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states, thereby likely gaining two senators, and expanding the judiciary in order to appoint more judges. \u201cThat\u2019s what they have in mind, and they\u2019ve got to be stopped because they are going to ruin this country if they get control of it,\u201d McConnell told the crowd. McConnell predicted tight Senate races, and a real battle for U.S. President, currently held by bombastic incumbent Republican Donald Trump. He said his advice to Trump would be to tone down some of his rhetoric and \u201cremind everybody of what kind of shape we are in\u201d economically. \u201cHe\u2019d be really hard to beat,\u201d McConnell said. McConnell spoke to the group at length about his own race against presumptive Democratic nominee Amy McGrath, a former U.S. Marine fighter pilot who unsuccessfully tried to unseat Andy Barr (R-Lexington) in Kentucky\u2019s 6th Congressional District in the 2018 election. \u201cSome of you probably think, given the position I\u2019m in, I would be having an easy race. Let me tell you, that\u2019s not going to be the case,\u201d McConnell said. He said McGrath raised $5 million in the first 24 hours after announcing her candidacy last year. The money came from over 300,000 donors, the vast majority of whom do not live in Kentucky, McConnell claimed. He added that money would be pouring into her campaign, and used to run a deluge of negative ads against him leading up to the November Election. \u201cShe is going to be on the air continuously talking about me, and most of it is not going to be nice.\u201d McConnell said he has taken on the role as being the \u201cdefender of middle America\u201d since he is the only congressional leader not from California or New York. He added that being in such a position also lets him set the legislative agenda and lets Kentucky, a relatively small state, \u201cpunch above its weight.\u201d The group applauded McConnell\u2019s recounting of his decision not to immediately appoint a replacement for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when he died. He also spoke about the recent impeachment proceedings against Trump, saying that turning back the effort to throw the president out of office was important because impeachment shouldn\u2019t be used simply because of policy disagreements or because someone is \u201cimpolite.\u201d McConnel said his re-election bid is important for conservatives because he represents a firewall against changes Democrats may want to enact. \u201cIf he [Trump] doesn\u2019t [win], and I\u2019m still majority leader of the Senate, none of that stuff will pass. None of it,\u201d McConnell said emphatically. Terry Forcht, Founder and Chairman of Forcht Group of Kentucky, made brief remarks while introducing McConnell calling him a \u201cgreat American\u201d and \u201cgood friend.\u201d"}