- Source: 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky
The 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who had been Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and senator from Kentucky since 1985, won reelection to a seventh term in office. He faced off against former U.S. Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath and Libertarian Brad Barron.
The Democratic and Republican primaries took place on June 23, 2020. As the primaries neared, the president of the National Bar Association accused officials of carrying out voter suppression. Compared to typical numbers of 3,700, the number of polling stations was reduced to 200 with only one in Louisville. Because a large number of voters voted by mail, absentee ballots were not counted until June 30. In the primary, over 937,000 people requested absentee ballots or voted early, a far greater number than usual.
Despite much speculation about this race being potentially competitive and large amounts of money being poured in to try to defeat McConnell, he wound up winning a seventh term with his largest margin of victory since 2002, defeating McGrath by nearly 20 percentage points. He also won Elliott and Wolfe Counties for the first time, solidifying rural Kentucky's hard swing towards the GOP. This was the first election in which McConnell attained more than 1 million votes.
Republican primary
= Candidates
=Nominee
Mitch McConnell, incumbent U.S. senator and Senate Majority Leader
Eliminated in primary
Nicholas Alsager
Paul John Frangedakis, chiropractor (switched to independent write-in candidacy after losing primary)
Louis Grider, truck driver
Neren James
Kenneth Lowndes
Wesley Morgan, former state representative
Withdrawn
Wendell K. Crow, businessman and entrepreneur (remained on ballot)
Karl Das
= Results
=Democratic primary
= Candidates
=Nominee
Amy McGrath, former U.S. Marine fighter pilot and Democratic nominee for Kentucky's 6th congressional district in 2018
Eliminated in primary
Charles Booker, state representative
Mike Broihier, farmer, educator, and former Marine
Maggie Joe Hilliard
Andrew Maynard
Eric Rothmuller, small business owner
John R. Sharpensteen
Bennie J. Smith, local business owner
Mary Ann Tobin, former Auditor of Kentucky
Withdrawn
Jimmy Ausbrooks, mental health counselor (endorsed Mike Broihier) (remained on ballot)
Steven Cox, registered pharmacy technician (endorsed Charles Booker)
Joshua Paul Edwards
Kevin Elliott, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Murray State University
Dr. Loretta Babalmoradi Noble
Declined
Rocky Adkins, former minority leader of the Kentucky House of Representatives and candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 2019
Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, former attorney general of Kentucky, and son of former governor Steve Beshear
Steve Beshear, former governor of Kentucky and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1996
Jack Conway, former attorney general of Kentucky, nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2010, nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 2015
Adam Edelen, former state auditor and candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 2019
Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville
Jim Gray, Secretary of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, former mayor of Lexington and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2016
Alison Lundergan Grimes, former secretary of state of Kentucky and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2014 (endorsed Booker)
Matt Jones, attorney, media personality, and restaurateur (had formed an exploratory committee beforehand, endorsed Booker)
= Campaign
=There were debates on March 5, 2020 and June 1, 2020.
Polling
= Endorsements
== Results
=Other candidates
= Libertarian primary
=The Libertarian Party of Kentucky did not qualify to nominate through the taxpayer-funded primary and held its own privately operated primary on March 8, 2020. Anyone registered Libertarian in the state of Kentucky as of January 1, 2020, could participate. All candidates of the Libertarian Party of Kentucky must defeat None Of The Above (NOTA) to obtain the nomination.
Nominee
Brad Barron, farmer and entrepreneur
= Reform Party
=Withdrawn
Derek Leonard Petteys
= Independents
=Declared
Daniel Cobble (as a write-in candidate)
Harold H. Fitzpatrick (as a write-in candidate)
Paul John Frangedakis (as a write-in candidate) (switched from Republican candidacy after losing primary)
Randall Lee Teegarden (as a write-in candidate)
Demetra Wysinger (as a write-in candidate)
Withdrawn
Alyssa Dara McDowell, independent candidate for president in 2016, 2018 Independent nominee for Kentucky House of Representatives District 65
General election
Despite record breaking fundraising from McGrath and speculation that the race could be competitive, McConnell was handily re-elected. Throughout the general election, McConnell portrayed McGrath as an overly liberal "rioter apologist" and made use of a comment from 2018 where McGrath compared her reaction to Trump being elected in 2016 to how she felt during the September 11 attacks.
= Debates
=Complete video of debate, October 12, 2020 - C-SPAN
= Predictions
== Endorsements
== Polling
=Graphical summary
Polls
= Results
=McConnell was announced as the winner on November 3. When pressed for a potential recount of the election amid legal disputes regarding the general, McConnell dismissed the idea, since, "at the risk of bragging, it wasn't very close."
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Bath (largest municipality: Owingsville)
Elliott (largest municipality: Sandy Hook)
Marion (largest municipality: Lebanon)
Menifee (largest municipality: Frenchburg)
Nicholas (largest municipality: Carlisle)
Rowan (largest municipality: Morehead)
Wolfe (largest municipality: Campton)
By congressional district
McConnell won 5 of 6 congressional districts.
See also
2020 Kentucky elections
Notes
Partisan clients
Voter samples
References
External links
Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Kentucky", Voting & Elections Toolkits
"Kentucky: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA
"League of Women Voters of Kentucky". (state affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
Kentucky at Ballotpedia
campaign websites
Brad Barron (L) for Senate Archived January 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
Mitch McConnell (R) for Senate
Amy McGrath (D) for Senate
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