Andrew Yang has endorsed Mike Broihier, an asparagus-farming progressive, in his Democratic Senate primary contest
,” was bracingly provocative. The spot featured Kentuckians of various stripes holding small chalkboards containing slurs people might use against them: “queer,” “hillbilly,” “baby killer.” “Labels are powerful things,” Broihier says in the voiceover. “For 35 years, Mitch McConnell has used labels to reinforce old prejudices, to divide us, to maintain his grip on power.”
To jump-start the campaign, Mike and Lynn sold off excess farm equipment, their one donkey, and even their beloved motorcycles. “Seeing the Harley go down the driveway with someone else on it was hard,” he says. Everything was hard, as it turned out. “In the beginning,” Wisehart says, “we felt like a candidate who would speak from his heart and mind directly would appeal to people more than a candidate saying what they think an audience wants to hear.
Last fall, Jones — who believed that Broihier “could be a great candidate if he could get known” — passed along his contact information to deClive Lowe, who’d advised Jones on his potential run. The young operative called Broihier from Iowa in December to chat. Soon after he returned home in February, Broihier came calling. “I’m sitting there exhausted, but we talked at the kitchen table for hours,” deClive Lowe told me.
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