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Posted: 2019-07-18T23:03:58Z | Updated: 2019-07-18T23:03:58Z

A Democrat who farms and previously worked as a rural newspaper editor has entered the race to try to upset Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) in 2020s general election, unveiling his campaign with a blunt video.

Mike Broihier (BROY-er) announced his candidacy Thursday with the release of the video that begins with several people holding chalkboard slates with a noun written on them descriptors that include Bitch, Thug, Hillbilly and Queer. Broihier, a 57-year-old former Marine, in a voiceover says that McConnell uses labels to reinforce old prejudices, to divide us, to maintain his grip on power.

The first-time candidate, who moved to Kentuckys Lincoln County about 14 years ago to farm and worked as an editor at The Interior Journal newspaper, goes on to say he is running to strip away the labels and strip Mitch McConnell of power. He said the six-term incumbent has refined the art of obstruction and throws the rules and 200 years of tradition onto the ash heap of history democracy be damned.

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