Kentucky Senate candidate Nate Morris posted an epic promotional video on social media that trashed RINO Mitch McConnell for his sordid legacy of defying President Trump, going on to show how Morris could be the ideal candidate for the MAGA movement based on his “political outsider” status, entrepreneurial spirit, and alignment with Trump’s policies.
For background, on July 8, 2025, Nate Morris, a self-proclaimed “ninth-generation Kentuckian,” launched his Senate campaign as a Republican with a video in which he openly slammed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for having “trashed Trump,” saying that candidates Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) and former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who he described as “McConnell’s boys,” would only do the same while calling himself “a Trump guy” instead.
In his ad, Morris said that Sen. McConnell had “trashed Trump,” referring to the senator’s involvement in multiple impeachment trials of President Trump that ended in acquittals, along with his reported blaming of the president for the “disgraceful” acts of his supporters on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.
Likewise, Morris made the case that “McConnell’s boys, Andy Barr and Bill Cameron,” would do the same if elected to the Senate. Morris then described himself as a “successful conservative businessman and political outsider.” He quipped, “I built one of the largest trash companies in America, so I know a little bit about garbage.”
Concluding his ad, Morris said that it was time to “throw McConnell and his cronies in the trash,” adding, “I’m Nate Morris, and I approve this message — because I’m a Trump guy, not a McConnell boy.” In response, conservative commenters celebrated on X, with the user BelannF writing, “Good to know you are a Trump guy @NateMorris. – We need more who will get behind the agenda 77 million people voted for.”
In response to the news of Morris’s run for Senate, Sen. McConnell reportedly pushed back, saying, “Surely this isn’t true, but I’ve heard that one of the candidates running for my office wants to be different.” He added, “Now, I’m wondering how you’d want to be different from the longest-serving Senate leader in American history. I’m wondering how you’d want to be different in supporting President Trump.”
On the other hand, Morris told reporters on August 2, 2025, that “career politicians” like Sen. McConnell “have run this country off a cliff,” adding, “I have a serious question: who here can honestly tell me that it’s a good thing to have a senior citizen who freezes on national television during his press conferences as our U.S. senator? It seems, to me, maybe just maybe, Mitch’s time to leave the Senate was a long time ago.”
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Additionally, on the same day, Trump supporter Patrick Marion told the Associated Press that he was favoring Morris, saying, “Personally, I think Mitch has been a RINO for way too long,” adding, “I don’t think he was a true MAGA supporter of President Trump.” However, another Republican told AP, “He keeps bashing Mitch McConnell like he’s running against Mitch McConnell,” going on to say of Sen. McConnell, “Overall, he’s helped Kentucky and the United States, especially our Supreme Court, more than any other U.S. senator in this country.”
Watch Morris’s ad:
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