{"id":21407,"date":"2026-04-16T04:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/barr-keeps-his-cash-lead-in-kentucky-senate-gop-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:01:37","slug":"barr-keeps-his-cash-lead-in-kentucky-senate-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/barr-keeps-his-cash-lead-in-kentucky-senate-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr keeps his cash lead in Kentucky Senate GOP primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Andy Barr maintained his cash advantage over his GOP rivals in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Barr raised nearly $1.5 million over the first three months of the year and started April with almost $4.2 million in his war chest \u2014 more than five times that of his next-closest rival, according to filings from the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Businessman Nate Morris reported raising $1 million and had roughly $580,000 in his campaign coffers to start the second quarter. But nearly half of that \u2014 $450,000 \u2014 was a personal loan, <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00909705\/1963629\" target=\"_blank\">per his filing<\/a>. Morris has now loaned himself $4.9 million over the course of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron posted another modest haul; he raised $456,000 and had roughly $765,000 in cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Barr holds a slim lead in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/kentucky-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\">public polling<\/a> of the contentious primary for McConnell\u2019s seat that has seen all three major candidates scramble to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/25\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell-kentucky-senate-primary\" target=\"_blank\">distance themselves from their former boss<\/a> and embrace Donald Trump. The president has <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ky\/louisville\/news\/2026\/03\/13\/trump-senate-candidates-\" target=\"_blank\">not endorsed in the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Andy Barr maintained his cash advantage over his GOP rivals in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Barr raised nearly $1.5 million over the first three months of the year and started April with almost $4.2 million in his war chest \u2014 more than five times that of his next-closest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407","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=21407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}