Democratic Kentucky state Rep. Pamela Stevenson announced a bid to fill outgoing Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) seat ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Stevenson declared her candidacy on Monday, marking a long-shot bid to become the state’s first Democratic senator since 1999.
“For 40 years, Mitch McConnell watched Kentucky from 30,000 feet,” she said in a campaign video that alluded to the incumbent senator’s time in Washington since first clinching the seat in 1985. “I cannot believe he ever looked our people in the eye, wielded all that power, and retired without making more of a difference in their lives.”
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A retired Air Force colonel who now serves as the Kentucky House’s minority leader, Stevenson ran to become the state’s attorney general in 2023. She lost
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