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 to launch a campaign to portray him as a solid ally of the president. Donald Trump and the vehement opposition of a “wake” trend towards 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 a Famous primary race 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 on his campaign for the US Senate and I’m happy to be able to support him.”
“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.”
Conservative councillor Known as a trusted leadership ally in the House, he chairs the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee on financial institutions.
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.
Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is also running for the Senate seat. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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.
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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.
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.
