Sen. Mitch McConnell has attended the annual political picnic in Fancy Farm for decades and helped convert it from a picnic where Democrats dominated to one where they’re praised for showing up.
Republican party officials in west Kentucky attribute that massive change to McConnell. At a GOP breakfast the morning of this year’s picnic, party members gave the absent senator a 20 second standing ovation before playing a tribute to McConnell at Fancy Farm over the course of his four-decade long career.
The emcee for the breakfast, Corey Elder, said that without McConnell, “Fancy Farm would not look the same.”
But this year,
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