November Paul–Booker US Senate Clash Is Most Compelling Race in Kentucky’s May 17 Primaries
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker speaks at a campaign stop in Pikeville, Ky., in June 2020. Booker fell 16,000 votes shy of securing the party’s nod in that race to challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. He's expected to easily win the state’s May 17 Democratic primary to take on Kentucky’s other incumbent Republican U.S. Senator, Rand Paul, this November. Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP
The biggest race in the Kentucky primaries isn’t on the May 17 ballot, but the presumptive November clash between two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Charles Booker.
Both are so heavily favored to secure their party’s nod in the primaries that their campaigns are already targeting each other.
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