Paul is lucky that Conway won.
If Mongiardo had won, he would creamed Paul in the general but Conway is liberal and Paul has a decent chance against him.
Remember to win in Kentucky, you have to appeal to sizeable amount of socially conservative democrats.
KY people are “conservative” by nature, meaning cautious. They are not traditional political conservatives but support federal programs. It would be very easy for them to elevate the state attorney general to senator although I don’t think that’s been done recently, as TX did it in 2002. Look for the Demos to demonize Paul, and I hope he will fight back and stop the “reaching out” nonsense that is killing his party.