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Lexington Herald-Leader: Who’s the most cringe member of the Ky Congressional delegation? We have a new winner.

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By LINDA BLACKFORD

On Tuesday, two members of Kentucky’s Congressional delegation made national headlines, one of them because he did something praiseworthy and the other because he did not, instead begging the question of whether we have the most embarrassing politicians in the country.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, as he occasionally does, stood his ground against Trumpworld and for a working democracy when he excoriated the Republican National Committee for deciding that the Jan. 6 insurrection was “legitimate public discourse” and anyone who said otherwise should be censured. Although this supreme gaslighting is embraced by a majority of the Republican party, Mitch was having none of it.

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