I originally wrote this on September 25, 2025, but didn’t finish it to my satisfaction, and it has been being ignored in my drafts queue ever since that time. The Bluegrass State held its primary elections, and yes, Amy McGrath Henderson^[1]While Mrs Henderson does not have enough respect for her husband to have taken his name, The First Street Journal will not show such similar disrespect. has now gone 0-for-3!

Does Amy McGrath Henderson want to go 0-for-3?

Lt Col Amy McGrath Henderson, USMC (Retired) is nowhere close to Harold Stassen‘s nine presidential campaign attempts, but there are rumors that she is about to become yet another perennial candidate. We have frequently noted the twice-failed Democrat, and have been singularly unimpressed.

Amy McGrath comeback? Former KY Senate candidate said to be considering 2026 run

By Austin Horn | Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 11:33 AM EDT

Amy McGrath, a former Democratic candidate for both the U.S. House and Senate in Kentucky, may jump in the Senate race in 2026.

A source close to McGrath and familiar with her thinking confirmed to the Herald-Leader that McGrath is “seriously considering” running for U.S. Senate again, which would mark her second time vying for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s seat.

In 2020, McGrath lost to McConnell by almost 20 percentage points despite out-raising the incumbent. McGrath brought in more than $94 million into her campaign coffers, while McConnell raised about $63 million.

The fundraising total was a historic mark in Kentucky and U.S. politics, setting a benchmark that no Kentucky campaign has approached since. At the time, along with other 2020 campaigns, it broke the record for most combined funds raised in a U.S. Senate race ever.

The Lexington Herald-Leader, which endorsed Mrs Henderson in the general election that contest, was too kind to her. In 2020, she was stomped by Senator McConnell by his largest percentage victory other than in 2002, against a sacrificial lamb candidate.

Back to the present!

I am pleased to report that Mrs Henderson, who has really nothing more than name recognition, won slightly over a third of the votes in a seven-candidate primary. She was seen as somewhat more moderate than Charles Booker, though not by much; she has been motivated primarily by her dislike of President Trump, something which showed up during her first campaign, for the Sixth District United States House seat, held by Representative Andy Barr.

As it turns out, Mr Barr not only won that race, but won the Republican senatorial primary for the seat being given up by retiring Senator Mitch McConnell. But it won’t be Mrs Henderson facing Mr Barr, because Mr Booker kicked her butt!  🙂

The Herald-Liberal-Leader was wrong once again, having endorsed Mrs Henderson yet again. The endorsement included this sentence about Mr Booker and Mr Henderson:

They are both good candidates; for a variety of reasons, they’ve never been first across the finish line for public office.

Perhaps the newspaper’s Editorial Board should have done some research: a simple Google search for Mr Booker would have told them what I already knew, that Mr Booker had won election for public office, to the Kentucky state House of Representatives in 2018, for the 43^rd District representing part of Louisville. He chose not to run for re-election, opting instead for the 2020 United States Senate race, where Mrs Henderson defeated him in the primary.

Mr Booker won the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Rand Paul, but he got stomped by Senator Paul in the general election, 913,326 (61.80%) to 564,311 (38.19%), carrying only three out of 120 counties, Jefferson (Louisville), Fayette (Lexington), and Franklin (Frankfort, the state capital).

The Herald-Leader endorsed Mr Booker in that race, but the newspaper always endorses Democrats, and they have a lousy record of success^[2]Past Herald-Leader endorsements: 2022: Charles Booker for Senate; no endorsement for 6th District Representative 2020: Joe Biden for President, Amy McGrath Henderson for Senate, and Josh Hicks for … Continue reading in that. I am amused.