First on FOX: Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) is officially taking part in the race in place of long-time retired Mitch McConnell, R-KY.
The bar, who has been at home for over a decade, is set to start a campaign in Richmond, Kentucky tonight.
He has also released a video launching a campaign portraying him as a solid ally of President Donald Trump and as a fierce opponent of the trends of “awakening” about diversity, transgender inclusion and the US energy domination.
“The United States is the greatest country on the planet, and it’s not even close, but here’s the problem. The left wants to castrate America. Literally,” the Kentucky Republican said in the video.
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Rep. Andy Burr is running for the Senate seat, which has been left by longtime Senator Mitch McConnell. (AP/Getty)
“They hate our values. They hate our history. And Good knows they hate President Trump. But here in Kentucky, we love him. I’m Andy Barr and I’m running to the Senate to help the President save this great nation.”
His candidacy sets up a well-known major competition against former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
In the video, the bar promised “not to post it in a luxurious hotel, but to deport illegal aliens” and “to remove this anti-call, do-gooder ESG trash entirely.”
“In partnership with President Trump, I will fight to create jobs for the warm, unambiguous, hardworking Kentucky for hardcore liberals,” Burr said in the video. “And as a dad, let me be clear. I fight to lock up the sick who will allow biological men to share locker rooms with their daughters.”
His Senate campaign includes House GOP leader, House majority leader Steve Scullies R-LA, and House Republican leader Elise Stefanik, RN.Y.
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Burr and McConnell have very different relationships with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“No one has a larger supporter of President Donald J. Trump and our Magazine movement than my dear friend Andy Barr,” Scullies told Fox News Digital. “I’m proud to be Andy in all-in with a campaign for the US Senate.
“I’m proud to call Andy a friend and I am a true supporter of his Senate campaign,” Stefanik said.
Barr said their support is “a strong signal for all Kentuckians that there is only one American first candidate in this race, and only one candidate has a track record of winning the American first agenda at the finish line.”
The conservative lawmaker is known as a trusted leadership ally in the House and chairs the House Financial Services Committee on Financial Institutions Subcommittee.
He is also the leader of several groups in the House, including the Taiwan Caucus in Congress, the Bourbon Caucus in Congress, and the American Workers Task Force.
McConnell is Kentucky’s longest-serving senator and the longest-serving leader in the Upper Chamber, and will only step down from leading the Senate GOP meeting late last year.
His final years have been marked by his rocky relationship with Trump, who has repeatedly sought an end to McConnell’s political career.
Trump and McConnell are also broken about foreign policy and defense issues. McConnell opposed two key Trump candidates in the national security field, director of National Intelligence Director Tarsi Gabbard and Pentagon secretary Pete Hegses.
Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is also running for the Senate seat. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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McConnell also opposed Trump’s health and welfare secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Barr and Cameron’s campaign is a total departure from that. Both portray themselves as stubborn Trump ally.
Kentucky businessman Nate Morris is also expected to announce a Republican bid for the seat.
And in Kentucky, where Trump has overtaken former vice president Kamala Harris by about 30%, he will prove that the president’s approval is decisive.
When asked for comment on the Barr’s campaign, Brandon Moody, a general consultant for Cameron’s campaign, hit the House of Representatives.
“The great Andy Barr brand tries to convince Kentucky that he is actually conservative and Magazine, so he’s not. Voters know he went to Washington and sold out Kentucky,” Moody said.
