LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Amy McGrath introduced Monday that she’s working for the U.S. Senate once more in Kentucky’s 2026 race.
The retired Marine fighter pilot’s final run was in 2020 because the Democratic candidate faced U.S. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.
In line with a information launch, McGrath stated she’s getting into the race to forestall one other candidate aligned with President Donald Trump from securing a straightforward path to the U.S. Senate.
“Kentuckians deserve somebody battle-tested and able to battle for them on day one,” McGrath stated. “I’ve spent my life stepping up when the mission was robust and the stakes had been excessive.”
Kentucky hasn’t had an open Senate seat since 2010, the discharge stated, and McGrath known as this race a “large alternative for Kentuckians.”
McGrath served 20 years within the Marine Corps, flying missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. She additionally served as a liaison officer within the pentagon and as an teacher on the U.S. Naval Academy.
Kentucky hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since Wendell Ford in 1992.
In 2020, McGrath was a prolific fundraiser as Democrats nationwide poured cash into her marketing campaign in hopes of seeing McConnell unseated. As an alternative, she was trounced as McConnell gained a seventh time period to construct on his legacy as Kentucky’s longest-serving U.S. senator.
Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Kentucky embrace U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and businessman Nate Morris.
All three have distanced themselves from McConnell whereas jockeying for Trump’s endorsement, seen as doubtlessly decisive.
On the Democratic facet, state Rep. Pamela Stevenson can be working for Senate together with former Secret Service agent Logan Forsythe and former CIA officer Joel Willett.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who can’t search reelection because of time period limits, has dominated out a Senate bid as hypothesis continues to construct over whether or not he could run for president in 2028.
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