Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) is projected to win the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.
Barr defeated former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and other, lesser-known, candidates.
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He will be a heavy general election favorite against the Democratic nominee in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since it awarded Wendell Ford a fourth and final term in 1992.
Trump waded into the race this month when backed Barr and urged Nate Morris, a businessman with strong ties to the president’s MAGA movement, to end his campaign for the GOP nomination and instead accept an ambassadorship. Morris agreed and quickly got behind Barr.
Though Morris is friends with Vice President JD Vance and received an endorsement from Charlie Kirk before the influential conservative activist’s assassination last year, he had not shown enough growth
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