To: stsimon who wrote (289170 ) 1/26/2016 7:48:44 PM From: Sam Read Replies (1) | Respond to Well, Rand gets a little competition. Hard to believe that a gay mayor will beat him in KY, but who knows, strange things happen.Rand Paul gets an opponent for Senate seat as he fights back onto the national debate stage jumped into the race for Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat, just hours before the deadline.went down in an upset and announced a hiatus from politics.crowed in an election night interview with The Washington Post. "The bench that was supposed to rise up and run for office — that’s gone."interview with reporter Sam Youngman. "It looks to me like they can’t find anybody to run," McConnell said.Yet at that time, Democrats were talking to Gray . The city's first openly gay mayor, he won the first of his two elections by tapping into the wealth built by his family's construction company. While Kentucky had swung hard toward the Republican Party, Gray seemed to give Democrats a shot at something they never had in McConnell's 2014 race — financial parity with the incumbent. Paul, who has raised funds for his presidential and Senate bids simultaneously, entered the year with just $1,415,939 on hand for the latter. By contrast, McConnell had raised more than $30 million to win re-election.VIDEO washingtonpost.com
