Charles Booker's Movement To Paint Kentucky Blue Is Only Just Beginning
Booker’s unsuccessful Senate bid excited progressives. His next act: an all-out effort to empower “regular folks” in the Bluegrass and beyond.
Source: Huff Post
Eight months ago, Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker launched a long shot bid to beat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) and become the first Black lawmaker his home state has ever sent to Washington.
His Democratic primary opponent, retired Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath, already had millions of dollars in the bank, ads running on TV, and the backing of the party establishment. Booker had a sleek campaign launch video, a bare-bones staff, and little else. Plus, he was running, in Kentucky, on a progressive platform that included a Green New Deal and “Medicare For All.”
But in the end, Booker lost the June 23 primary by less than 3 points. He surged in the final weeks, as the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests over the police killings of Black Americans ― including 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in Booker’s hometown of Louisville ― completely shifted the political landscape. Barely known outside Louisville when the race began, he became a darling of the national progressive movement. Even in defeat, he was tapped as a rising political star.
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Charles Booker is determined to work with Amy McGrath and get Mitch McConnell OUT of the Senate.
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I am so proud of him, and his commitment to get rid of Mitch McConnell.
I may send him some more money! 
