Insults and accusations hurled around at the 2025 Fancy Farm picnic

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The three men running to replace longtime U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell worked to rip apart each other's reputations on Saturday, at the annual Fancy Farm picnic in western Kentucky.

U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and entrepreneur Nate Morris have all three announced their bid to succeed McConnell. The GOP rivals are all strong supporters of President Donals Trump's MAGA movement but the president has not yet endorsed any of them.

The Associated Press reported Cameron said,“Nate will do anything and say anything to run away from his past. You can’t claim to be MAGA when you build a company on ESG subsidies and DEI initiatives.”

Barr quipped: “Nate calls himself the trash man, but dumpster fire is more like it.”

“If you want to know how Andy Barr or Daniel Cameron are going to act in the U.S. Senate – look no further than their ‘mentor’ Mitch McConnell,” Morris said.

“Both of these guys are very proud to tell you they wouldn’t have careers if it weren’t for Mitch,” Morris added. “Neither of these guys have built anything, done anything impactful, employed anyone.”

McConnell was also at the picnic, but kept his speech focused on his own record. "He pointed to his record of steering enormous sums of federal funds to his home state to build or fix infrastructure, support agriculture and military installations and more", according to the Associated Press.

The democrat running for the spot, Pamela Stevenson decided to skip the Fancy Farm picnic this year.