Racial unrest seeps into Kentucky Senate primary, reshaping contest to take on McConnell
The Democratic primary between Amy McGrath and Charles Booker is heating up.
By
Kendall Karson
and
Quinn Scanlan
June 19, 2020, 5:05 AM
Amy McGrath: McConnell "represents Washington DC and the swamp"Amy McGrath faces a tight primary battle next week against Charles Booker for the Democratic Senate nomination in Kentucky.
Amy McGrath, the former Marine fighter pilot, heads into Tuesday's Kentucky Senate primary the presumptive Democratic frontrunner to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with the backing of the national Democratic establishment and a $41 million war chest. But it might not be enough to get through the primary.
After a string of recent killings of African Americans by law enforcement, including two within the state since mid-March, the contest is on new terrain, one in which the 2018 congressional candidate's advantages are struggling to offset the grassroots momentum that is sweeping her lesser-known rival, state Rep. Charles Booker, into contention for the nomination.
McGrath is a darling of national Democrats, earning the backing of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee back in February and establishing her campaign as a fundraising behemoth since she launched her Senate bid in July 2019. But as Booker and his campaign cast her as a consultant-driven, more-of-the-same, moderate, "pro-Trump Democrat," McGrath invokes her outsider status to contrast herself with Booker, who she suggests is part of the "political establishment."
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