From her kitchen table, a teenage Amy McGrath wrote her senator to ask him to change the rules so that women could fly fighter planes. Thirty years and 89 combat missions later, the Kentucky native has flown her way into the history books. Amy was the first female to pilot the F-18 fighter jet in a combat mission. The U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel graduated from the Naval Academy, served in the Marines for 20 years, and retired to her home in Kentucky to raise her family. In 2018, as a Democrat, she sought to unseat Rep. Andy Barr. Though she outspent him by three million dollars, she lost the election by 3 points. In 2019, she announced she would challenge Mitch McConnell for his senate seat, a seat he first won in 1984. While her 2018 campaign stayed positive, with Amy refusing to run attack ads, her 2019 campaign was different as she kicked things off by calling Mitch everything that was wrong in Washington.
