Candidate briefing
Charles Booker is the 2026 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, running for the open seat McConnell is giving up after seven terms. He won the May 19 primary with 46.8% of the vote, ahead of Amy McGrath at 35.9% and state House minority leader Pamela Stevenson.
A Louisville native with a law degree from the University of Louisville, Booker served in the Kentucky House from 2019 to 2021. He was the party’s Senate nominee in 2022 and ran in the 2020 primary.
He faces Republican Rep. Andy Barr on November 3 and is campaigning statewide on affordability. Our Revolution, the Working Families Party and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee have endorsed him. Why Political Revolution supports him: he is running a working-class campaign that ties racial justice to the cost of living, in a state Democrats usually concede.