27-06-2025
Nate Morris launches quest for McConnell seat with cheeky "Garbage Day" ad
Nate Morris — a pro-Trump entrepreneur who founded a waste-disposal company worth $2 billion — joined the frenzied race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) with a cutting but lighthearted ad showing Morris riding on the back of a bouncing garbage truck.
"Let's dump career politicians and take out the trash in Washington," Morris says as his "DC SWAMP CLEANUP SERVICES" truck pulls away.
The " Garbage Day" ad, first reported by Breitbart's Matt Boyle, says each of Morris' two main rivals for the Republican nomination — U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron — is a "McConnell Puppet."
The two-minute video will run as a digital ad and on social media.
The backstory: Morris, 44, who lives in Lexington, is the founder and former CEO of Rubicon Technologies, a successful waste and recycling platform he took public in 2022.
Morris launched his campaign with a cutting-edge twist, announcing his campaign Thursday on Don Jr.'s podcast, "Triggered."
Morris' campaign is run by a trio of Trump-Vance advisers — Andy Surabian, Chris Grant and Tony Fabrizio.
The other side: The Barr campaign said in a statement to Axios that Morris is "more of an East Coast liberal than a Kentucky conservative."
