Posted on 03/15/2021 2:23:33 PM PDT by RandFan
Former Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination last year to take on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said on Monday that he is “strongly considering” a bid against Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) next year.
“I am strongly considering a run for United States Senate in 2022,” Booker, who campaigned as a progressive in 2020, tweeted. “Good morning.”
Booker challenged Amy McGrath, the well-funded former Marine fighter pilot favored by Senate Democratic leadership, in last year’s Democratic Senate primary in Kentucky.
McGrath ultimately won the nomination but by a smaller-than-expected 3-point margin.
McConnell went on to win the November general election by nearly 20 points, crushing Democratic hopes of a close race in deep-red Kentucky.
Paul, a two-term senator who rose to prominence within the Tea Party movement a decade ago, is facing reelection in 2022, though he is not considered particularly vulnerable.
Kentucky voters haven’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, and both McConnell and former President Trump carried the state in last year’s elections by wide, double-digit margins.
The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, rates the 2022 Kentucky Senate contest as “solid” Republican, suggesting that Democrats have little chance of flipping Paul’s seat, at least for the time being.
Still, Booker proved in last year’s primary that he is capable of competing statewide, even when facing better-funded rivals. Between January and June of last year, Booker’s primary campaign raked in less than $800,000 — only a fraction of the more than $24 million raised by McGrath.
He also picked up a handful of prominent endorsements, including one from Alison Lundergan Grimes, the former Kentucky secretary of state who challenged McConnell in 2014.
Before anyone says this guy has no chance, let’s remember who the two Georgia Senators are...
If KY goes down the road of mail-in voting then anything is possible...
The Dems’ Happy Pappy* would work in KY like GA.
(*Happy Pappy was what my kin called Gov Payments)
Is that really necessary?
That moment when Extremely Extreme Extremist calls you out for being too extreme.
Dr. Paul is not the Kentucky problem in the Senate.
Is calling Brian Stelter out as a member of the set of Potatoes a problem?
Rand Paul would win the contest, except for the SMOTE-B derived algorithm/software running on Dominion, Hart Intercivic, ES&S, and likely on any new platform integrated into our elections. SMOTE-B was operational in all Diebold platforms previously as well.
The left will make sure related or derived software is integrated into all new election platforms going forward. It doesn’t matter the registered or corporate name.
Most Americans are just too easily fooled by the left.
That save attempt might have worked with democrats but not here.
. . . now that the democrats have cheating down to a science and are making laws to help them do it - I’d say he’s got a fair-to-middlin’ chance of doing it.
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Splendid!
Official winner of the interwebs 3/15/2021
Vote fraud ala cart.
I’m calling it now.
Yes, it's an anachronism. What is wrong with just saying black Americans? Blacks are just as much as Americans as whites despite leftists coddling them and destroying their families and dignity.
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