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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