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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear defended skipping the Fancy Farm picnic to attend his son’s baseball game, trading barbs with Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Andy Barr who criticized his record; Beshear fired back on X with sharp retorts, while Barr—who’s running for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat—and Paul used the moment to renew attacks, highlighting a heated political exchange in Kentucky.
Charles Booker won Kentucky's Democratic U.S. Senate primary, defeating Amy McGrath and advancing to a general election against Republican Rep. Andy Barr to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell; Booker, a progressive, carried Jefferson and Fayette counties and frames the race as a chance to flip a seat in a state long regarded as solid red.
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr won Kentucky's Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitch McConnell, aided by a Trump endorsement and outsized fundraising over rival Daniel Cameron; Cameron conceded after Barr led as polls closed, setting Barr up to face the Democrat in November.
Representative Andy Barr won the Republican nomination to succeed retiring Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, riding President Trump's endorsement in a three-way race with Daniel Cameron and Nate Morris; Morris withdrew and endorsed Barr, who framed his campaign around preserving Kentucky's voice in the Senate and uniting a divided Republican base.
Rep. Andy Barr won Kentucky's Republican Senate primary, boosted by President Trump's endorsement, defeating Daniel Cameron and Nate Morris; Barr is widely favored to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell in deep-red Kentucky.
Rep. Andy Barr won Kentucky's Republican Senate primary, boosted by President Trump's endorsement and Nate Morris's withdrawal, setting up a general-election bid to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell; Daniel Cameron finished a distant second.
Rep. Andy Barr won Donald Trump’s endorsement and, by balancing McConnell loyalists and Trump supporters while sidelining rivals Daniel Cameron and Nate Morris, is positioned to win Kentucky’s 2026 Senate seat.
President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Andy Barr to succeed Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s Senate race, reshaping the GOP primary just weeks before the May 19 election. Trump also pressed one rival to drop out—Nate Morris—while former Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron remains in the contest, in a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1992.
President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Andy Barr for Kentucky’s open Senate seat, prompting Nate Morris to drop out after Trump urged him to accept an ambassadorship; Morris then endorsed Barr, who said the endorsement shows he’ll stand with Trump to deliver the America First agenda as Kentucky voters prepare for the May 19 GOP primary for McConnell’s seat.
President Trump endorsed Rep. Andy Barr in Kentucky’s Republican primary to replace Mitch McConnell after pressuring Nate Morris to drop out and potentially take a diplomatic post. The move gives Barr a major boost against Daniel Cameron, with Morris backing Barr and Musk having previously invested in Morris’s campaign, signaling a Trump-favored path to the GOP nomination in a deeply red state.