Crowd Drowns Out Mitch McConnell With Boos At Event In His Own State
Posted on AllSides August 7th, 2023
Appearing in a Kentucky county where Donald Trump led Joe Biden by about 57 percentage points in the results from the 2020 presidential race, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faced furious jeers over the weekend, with the crowd loudly chanting that he should retire. As the Senator tried to get through his remarks, the crowd loudly bellowed that word — “retire!” — over and over. McConnell was barely audible in footage from the event as the jeers mounted only further. The gathering was a community barbecue in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, an...