Amy McGrath, a Democrat and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, is setting her sights on representing Kentucky in the U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell. McGrath, who previously ran against McConnell for the same seat in 2020 and lost by approximately 20 percentage points, announced her candidacy on Oct. 6 as a rebuke of McConnell’s performance in Congress coupled with the current state and trajectory of the Trump administration. The first woman to fly in an F/A-18 in combat