In Kentucky, Racial Justice Movement Transforms Quest to Oust McConnell [View all]

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Senate Democrats thought they had it all planned out.

Maybe they couldn’t defeat Sen. Mitch McConnell, their legislative bête noire, in Kentucky this November. But by nominating Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot who earned a national following in a close 2018 House race, they figured they could keep the race relatively competitive, raise a Brinks truck full of cash against the majority leader and perhaps draw some extra money for their efforts to reclaim the Senate.

Then came the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, who was shot eight times after officers entered her apartment in Louisville with a battering ram. And suddenly everything changed.

McGrath now finds herself in a rapidly tightening race against Charles Booker, a 35-year-old African American state representative who was tear-gassed by police at a recent protest.

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