In the first campaign ad for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled Wednesday, the Kentucky Republican’s wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, fired back at the progressive group that recently levied an attack against her Chinese-American ethnicity.
“You’ve seen the ads attacking my husband. As Mitch McConnell’s wife, I’ve learned to expect them,” Chao said in the ad. “Now far left special interests are also attacking my ethnicity, even attacking Mitch’s patriotism because he’s married to me. That’s how low some people will stoop.”
Chao was taking aim at a series of tweets last month from the liberal advocacy organization ProgressKentucky that tried to establish a connection between her ethnicity and the outsourcing of American jobs to China.
CNN reported that McConnell’s campaign is spending six-figures on the ad, which will air for a week in the Louisville and Lexington markets beginning Thursday.
