That candidate is Charles Booker, who almost won the party’s nomination last year with one of the most inspired campaigns in the state’s modern history.
Third, Democrats might actually put up a candidate with a plan to unite urban and rural voters in a groundbreaking coalition. At the presidential level, Trump was popular in Kentucky, but Democrat Joe Biden ran four points better in the state in 2020 than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, and Democrats flipped a key state Senate seat in a special election last year. While Beshear bows to bipartisanship-he has to, in a state where Republicans control both chambers of the legislature-the governor has had considerable success in advancing progressive initiatives to fund public education, expand access to health care, restore voting rights to more than 170,000 nonviolent offenders, and restrict the use of no-knock warrants in the state where 26-year-old emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in 2020 by Louisville police during a raid on her home.
Just 36 percent of Kentuckians disapproved of the job he’s doing. The state has a Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, who has gotten high marks for his handling of the pandemic and maintains a 55 percent favorable rating, according to a February Mason-Dixon Polling Strategy survey. Morgan Watkins is The Courier Journal's chief political reporter.First, Kentucky is not so Republican as all that coverage of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell might make it seem. Neither Booker nor Paul's latest fundraising figures were publicly available on the Federal Election Commission's website Tuesday afternoon. "We have seen time and time again that fundraising without a real plan to invest in the people and make Kentuckians’ voices heard is a failing plan,” Booker's campaign manager, Bianca Keaton, said in a statement. In its news release Tuesday, his campaign said it's "on pace to run the largest statewide deep organizing campaign in the history of the commonwealth." "We’ve raised five times as much as our opponent and we have five times the donors."ĭespite Paul's hefty fundraising lead, Booker's campaign expressed confidence in the ground game it plans to run in Kentucky during the 2022 election season. Paul return to the Senate in 2022," Deputy Campaign Manager Jake Cox said. "This record-breaking fundraising quarter is a strong sign that Kentuckians want to see Dr. "We're in this fight to win and we will thanks to you and the more than 150,000 grassroots supporters who've donated this year just like you!" "MASSIVE! We just had a RECORD-BREAKING fundraising quarter with more than $4M raised in the last 3 months!" Paul tweeted Tuesday. Paul's campaign also announced its latest financial results Tuesday and said the most recent fundraising period broke the senator's career record for money raised in a single quarter. "98% of our dollars are from grassroots small donors proving that this is a campaign funded by everyday people - the kinds of people that are usually forgotten by our political leaders in this state."īooker's campaign said it has received contributions from more than 30,000 donors so far, with almost half of the money coming from within Kentucky. “The grassroots support has been tremendous, and proves that Kentuckians are ready for change," he said. In a statement Tuesday, Booker - whose bid for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's seat last year generated a lot of buzz even though he narrowly lost 2020's Democratic primary - said most of his contributions have come from people chipping in small amounts of money. Who is Charles Booker?: What to know about the candidate who wants to oust Sen. 30 is Booker's first since he officially launched his campaign in July. Paul has been bringing in money for his next reelection throughout the year, whereas the three-month fundraising period that ended Sept. However, the Republican incumbent announced an even bigger haul of over $4 million for the same quarter. Democrat Charles Booker said he raised about $1.7 million in his Senate campaign's first fundraising quarter as he works to defeat Sen.
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