The 2020 reelection campaign for Mitch McConnell is off to a smooth start with some team merch that has people talking.
The Hill reports:
The reelection campaign for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is selling “Cocaine Mitch” t-shirts, an embrace of the label given to the Kentucky Republican by failed 2018 West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship (R).
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Blankenship last year ran an advertisement in which he said “one of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch Cocaine Mitch.”
He later said in a news release that he was referring to McConnell’s “father-in-law who founded and owns a large Chinese shipping company [and] has given Mitch and his wife millions of dollars over the years,” adding that the company was implicated in alleged cocaine smuggling.
Here’s a Twitter image McConnell’s team posted after Blankenship lost his primary race:
Thanks for playing, @DonBlankenship. #WVSen pic.twitter.com/TV1ETgQdmu
— Team Mitch (Text MITCH to 47360) (@Team_Mitch) May 9, 2018
The t-shirts cost $35. Here’s what they look like:
Become an official member of the Cartel! pic.twitter.com/NldVtTeJgj
— Team Mitch (Text MITCH to 47360) (@Team_Mitch) May 8, 2019
.@Team_Mitch’s same day delivery service is 🔥🔥🔥. #CocaineMitch pic.twitter.com/eoYsZGww5n
— Adam Scheidler (@Scheidsa) May 8, 2019
In addition to the t-shirts, the campaign is also selling “Cocaine Mitch” stickers for $10:
I'm very excited about my new @Team_Mitch #CocaineMitch t-shirt I just ordered. Not to mention, the amazing up-sell on the matching Cocaine Mitch sticker. #KYsen pic.twitter.com/pvw1GKsYEu
— Mac Stoddard (@MacStoddard) May 8, 2019
Liberals are, of course, fauxfended by the t-shirts and stickers:
As his state is ravaged by a drug epidemic, Mitch McConnell fundraises off ‘Cocaine Mitch’ T-shirts https://t.co/Fdh0Ium44o pic.twitter.com/rendVdJOoI
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 8, 2019
If we sell enough #CocaineMitch shirts, we'll buy you a sense of humor. https://t.co/f1e1ehraO6
— Team Mitch (Text MITCH to 47360) (@Team_Mitch) May 8, 2019
…. but others think they are pretty nifty and have already placed their orders:
I love this so much pic.twitter.com/Myqkl8JZzT
— Andrew Mahaleris (@Mahaleris) May 8, 2019
Just got mine pic.twitter.com/KmQ7cN7LiT
— Parker Bishop (@pwb204) May 8, 2019
https://twitter.com/Neweirs/status/1126149738300968962
The Senate Majority Leader even reportedly answered his phone last year as “Cocaine Mitch”:
I hear from reliable sources that Sen McConnell has been answering his phone "Cocaine Mitch." @jmartNYT reports that it was Sen McConnell who prodded Pres Trump to weigh in on WV primary. https://t.co/yo5F18708j
— Carl Hulse (@hillhulse) May 7, 2018
Don’t be surprised if you see “Grim Reaper McConnell” or “Nuclear Mitch” t-shirts one day soon, too:
Dems need to stop giving Mitch so many badass nicknames. Nuclear Grim Reaper Cocaine Mitch is too wordy. https://t.co/qan8mhyfQz
— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) April 30, 2019
Sen Durbin trying out new Trumpian nickname for Sen McConnell – “Nuclear Mitch.”
— Carl Hulse (@hillhulse) May 7, 2019
Like the “Cocaine Mitch” nickname, McConnell embraces the others without a shred of regret:
Let me be clear: I will be the ‘grim reaper’ in the Senate when it comes to socialist schemes that would destroy jobs, private health insurance, and the free enterprise system. pic.twitter.com/Jzcl4khLAk
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) May 8, 2019
Indeed:
Rep. Steve Cohen complains how Sen. Mitch McConnell is bragging that House Democrat-passed bills die in the Senate and how he blocked Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination. pic.twitter.com/9y7sYfvUVn
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 8, 2019
And oh yeah, this, too:
100 federal judges confirmed. pic.twitter.com/OJsqqFZARk
— Brandon Howell (@BrandonDHowell) May 2, 2019
More, please!
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