{"id":14480,"date":"2025-10-16T02:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-barr-maintains-cash-on-hand-edge-in-gop-contest-to-succeed-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:16:49","slug":"andy-barr-maintains-cash-on-hand-edge-in-gop-contest-to-succeed-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-barr-maintains-cash-on-hand-edge-in-gop-contest-to-succeed-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Barr maintains cash on hand edge in GOP contest to succeed McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Andy Barr has maintained his early fundraising edge in the crowded Republican primary to succeed GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Barr raised $1.8 million between the beginning of July and the end of September and ended the quarter with $6.7 million in the bank, according to his Wednesday filing with the Federal Election Commission<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barr\u2019s robust war chest \u2014 three times larger than his two competitors\u2019 combined \u2014 underscores his sustained momentum in the high-profile race. He also had a cash-on-hand advantage at the end of the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Businessman Nate Morris raised $4 million, but the bulk of that \u2014 roughly $3 million \u2014 came from a personal loan, according to his Wednesday filing<\/u><\/a>. He ended the third quarter with just over $1 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n

Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron again posted modest fundraising numbers, raising $411,000 and ending the third quarter with just under $630,000 on hand, according to his filing<\/u><\/a>. That follows relatively low second quarter<\/u><\/a> fundraising, when he brought in just over $385,000, raising questions about the longevity of his campaign.<\/p>\n

Kentucky\u2019s Republican primary, shaping up to be among the most expensive and competitive 2026 Senate primaries, has emerged as a bellwether for the direction of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

All three leading GOP candidates interned for McConnell<\/u><\/a> at some point in their career \u2014 but are now trying to distance themselves from the longtime Senate Republican leader. They are instead moving to embrace Trump, betting that an endorsement from the president would be a silver bullet in the state that he carried by 30 points in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Andy Barr has maintained his early fundraising edge in the crowded Republican primary to succeed GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Barr raised $1.8 million between the beginning of July and the end of September and ended the quarter with $6.7 million in the bank, according to his Wednesday filing with the Federal Election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}