Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) is projected to win the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.

Barr defeated former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and other, lesser-known, candidates.

NBC News shared further:

He will be a heavy general election favorite against the Democratic nominee in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since it awarded Wendell Ford a fourth and final term in 1992.

Trump waded into the race this month when backed Barr and urged Nate Morris, a businessman with strong ties to the president’s MAGA movement, to end his campaign for the GOP nomination and instead accept an ambassadorship. Morris agreed and quickly got behind Barr.

Though Morris is friends with Vice President JD Vance and received an endorsement from Charlie Kirk before the influential conservative activist’s assassination last year, he had not shown enough growth in polls to win Trump’s support.

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“Just like the President said at his Northern Kentucky rally in March, I’ve been with him all the way and I always will be,” Barr said in a statement after clinching Trump’s endorsement. “As our next Senator, I’ll stand with President Trump 100% to deliver for Kentucky and to keep Making America Great Again.”

The Democratic primary has not been called yet.

Charles Booker, Amy McGrath, Pam Stevenson, and Dale Romans are among the Democrats competing for the party’s nomination.

WHAS 11 noted:

McConnell, the longest-serving party leader in Senate history before ceding the position in 2024, is retiring when his current term ends in January 2027. He was first elected in 1984.

Kentucky’s general election is November 3, 2026. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, who holds Kentucky’s other Senate seat, won’t be up for reelection until 2028.

 

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