Mitch McConnell faces challenger in 2020 Senate race

Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will face a challenger in the U.S. Senate race next year.

Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath announced she'll run for the Senate seat in 2020.

A former Marine fighter pilot, McGrath said she wrote to McConnell when she was 13 about how she wanted to fly combat jets for the U.S.

"He never wrote back," she says in a campaign video. "I'm Amy McGrath, and I've often wondered, how many other people did Mitch McConnell never take the time to write back or even think about?"

Read more from the Louisville Courier Journal.