Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, announced his campaign to succeed retiring Senator Mitch McConnell (R) in the 2026 election.
“Working with President Trump, I’ll fight to create jobs for hardworking Kentuckians instead of warm and fuzzies for hard-core liberals,” Barr said in a campaign video.
Barr’s top rival for the Republican nomination is Daniel Cameron, a former Kentucky attorney general and legal counsel to McConnell who lost the 2023 governor’s election to Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear. State Rep. Pamela Stevenson is seeking the Democratic nomination in a state that last elected ...