Democratic candidate for Kentucky Senate, Charles Booker, left, and Senator Mitch McConnell, right.
(Photo: Charles Booker, YouTube/Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has long been regarded as an enemy of Black people, beginning, conservatively, in the late 1980s, when he voted against the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, and continuing to this day with his unwavering support of the Trump White House.
But a young, Black, educated and homegrown Kentuckian who succeeded in securing a seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2018, Charles Booker, aims to defeat the veteran Republican senator.
theGrio spoke exclusively with Booker ahead of the June 23 primary, which is today, about what inspired him to enter politics, how the police killing of Breonna Taylor impacted him, and why Kentuckians should vote for him.
Booker hopes to beat a pro-Trump Democrat in the primary and Senator McConnell in November.
