LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign has hired a Kentucky teenager known for his viral encounter with a Native Amer꧂ican man at the Lincoln Memorial last year.
Nick Sandmann landed a paid position as grassroots director for McConnell’s reelection effort in Kentucky, the senator’s campaign said Friday. Sandmann started his new role this month, and McConnell campaign manager Kevin Gol🌄den said they’re “excited” to have him on board.
As grassroots director, Sandmann will assist in developing field operations and buildi♎ng coalitions.
“Along with our already strong team, his efforts to bring people together all across Kentucky will be critiꦜcal to Senator McConnell’s victory this November,” Golden said in a statement.
Sandmann, a Transylvania University student, tweeted Thursdඣay: “finally got to add more 🧸to my bio than just my schools.”
McConnell, the top congressional ally to President Donald Trump, is seeking a seventh term. His Democratic challenger is Amy McGrath, a retired Marine combat pilot who has raised huge amounts of campaign cash but faces an uphill fight ag♔ainst McConnell ꧑in conservative-leaning Kentucky.
Sandmann was in the national spotlight again at this week’s Republican National Convention. He gave a speech accusing news outlets of being driven bꩲy “anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Donald Trump” bias in reporting on his encounter at the Lincoln Memorial.
Sandmann was among students from a northern Kentucky high school who participated in an anti-abortion march in Washington in early 2019.
Video widely shared online showed Sandmann and Nathan Phillips standing close to each other, with Sandmann staring and at times smiling at Phillips as Phillips played on a drum. Sandmann was wearing a red “Make Amer🙈ica Great Again” ca🥂p. Both Sandmann and Phillips later said they were trying to defuse tensions among groups that had held competing demonstrations.