Exclusive — Kentucky Senate Candidate Andy Barr’s Campaign Manager Raging with Trump Derangement Syndrome: ‘I Will Never Vote Donald Trump for President’

WASHINGTON—The man whom longtime former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s mentee Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) hired to run his U.S. Senate campaign to replace the outgoing McConnell in Kentucky this year is a raging Never Trumper with a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

Barr’s campaign manager, Blake Gober, ascended to his current position leading Barr’s campaign back in January of this year. On Jan. 12, 2026, Politico reported that Gober would be taking the reins of Barr’s U.S. Senate campaign, meaning the congressman was putting his entire political future in Gober’s hands. Gober himself shared the news on his account on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter:

Normally, whom candidates hire on their campaigns and whom they employ as consultants is mundane and beyond the specific announcement it would usually be not newsworthy. But it’s clear that Gober is someone with a longtime,