Retired Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath is joining the Democratic race for Kentucky’s open Senate seat , five years after losing a well-funded bid to unseat Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell by nearly 20 points.

“Kentuckians deserve someone battle-tested and ready to fight for them on day one,’’ McGrath said in a statement announcing her run. “I’ve gone toe-to-toe with Washington insiders and their special interests, and I know what it takes to build a campaign that can truly compete.”

McGrath’s 2020 campaign spent nearly $90 million in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to oust McConnell in the deep-red state, which hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992. Two years earlier, though, she rose to national prominence with her campaign for the House, coming within 3 points of uns

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