Rep. Andy Barr is a prodigious fundraiser whose House district includes Kentucky’s second-largest city. Former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron enjoys broad name recognition after two statewide runs. And Nate Morris is a largely unknown entrepreneur positioning himself as a political outsider.
But looming over the three-way Republican primary for Kentucky’s open Senate seat are two defining figures of the modern GOP — President Donald Trump and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose legacy is at the center of the increasingly bitter contest to succeed him.
Barr, Cameron and Morris are campaigning as fierce Trump loyalists, and they each know that an endorsement from the president would provide any candidate in this reliably red state with a powerful boost.
