The Kentucky primary race between Democratic candidates to decide who takes on Senate Majority Leader McConnell in November, is too close to call, NBC News projects.
Booker, who only entered the U.S. Senate race in January, used late momentum to overtake the much better funded McGrath and has had raised $793,000 by that point., a Louisville woman who was shot dead in her apartment on March 13 by police executing a"no-knock" warrant, and netted endorsements from the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
McGrath was also backed by several establishment Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I believe that she’ll give McConnell a run for his money,”In New York, longtime New York Rep. Eliot Engel is in a tough fight for reelection as he tries to fend off an aggressive primary challenge from Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first ever political campaign.
Bowman’s fight over Engel in New York’s 16th District is being compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’sBowman’s bid was also helped by Engel, who found himself in on the defensive after getting caught onearlier this month pleading to speak at a press event involving unrest and vandalism in his district after the death of George Floyd.
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