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Nearly a dozen GOP senators, Senate aides and operatives with experience on Senate races predicted to The Hill the party will hit the 52-seat mark. Most said the party brass will be left shaking ...
After the death of state senator Johnnie L. Turner, Madon and 10 others filed as a write-in candidate for Turner's vacant seat. [1] With the endorsement of U.S. Representative Hal Rogers and the Kentucky Senate Republican Caucus, [2] Madon won the election with 35.2% of the vote and is the state senator-elect from Kentucky's 29th Senate ...
A Kentucky legislative leader has filed a bill that would strip Gov. Andy Beshear of the authority to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate and instead force him to call a special election if one of ...
The 2016 Kentucky Senate election was held on November 8, 2016. The Republican and Democratic primary elections were held on May 17. Half of the senate (all odd-numbered seats) were up for election. Republicans maintained their majority in the chamber without gaining or losing any seats.
The seat opened up after McGarvey ran and won the U.S. House seat in Kentucky's 3rd congressional district. Democratic candidate Cassie Chambers Armstrong defeated Republican candidate Misty Glin to become Senator. On May 16, 2023, a special election was held to fill the vacant 28th district Senate seat left by Ralph Alvarado.
Heading into the 2024 election, Republicans hold 47 of the 50 Senate seats in the 25 states that voted for Trump in 2020. Democrats, in turn, hold 48 of the 50 Senate seats in the 25 states that ...
Clay was selected as Kentucky's member of the Republican National Committee. [6] After the times of the Solid South, Kentucky has a unique Republican history. Although it is a traditionally Democratic Southern State, the Republican Party of Kentucky became more relevant in Kentucky political affairs around the 1940s and 1950s. [7]
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a move supporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the ...