Andrew Yang has endorsed Mike Broihier, an asparagus-farming progressive, in his Democratic Senate primary contest

I'm getting a lot of Facebook ads for McGrath, and I got a couple of fund-raising emails from Broihier due to previously donating to Yang.

From the article:

The problem was whom to work for. Like many Kentucky Democrats, deClive Lowe had hoped for an out-of-the-box run by Matt Jones, a Coal Country native who’d become the state’s best-known progressive populist — and an arch McConnell antagonist — as the founder and star host of Kentucky Sports Radio. But after Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer recruited moderate Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who’d gained national notoriety in a close-but-no-cigar bid for Congress in 2018, to make the race, Jones ultimately opted out. To most political observers, that meant the contest to face McConnell was effectively over. With McGrath raking in millions from national Democrats desperate to ditch Mitch, she appeared to face nothing but token opposition from a roster of obscure candidates, only one of whom, first-term state Rep. Charles Booker, had ever won an election.

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But there was this other guy in the race, a wild card named Mike Broihier who’d been saying and doing interesting stuff for months while gaining little traction. A first-time candidate at 57, Broihier seemed to have the perfect mix of life experiences for a red-state Democrat. In 2005, after a 21-year career in the Marine Corps (serving in Somalia, Japan, and Afghanistan, among other places), the retired lieutenant colonel had bought a 75-acre working farm with his wife, Lynn Wisehart (also a retired Marine) in rural Lincoln County, where he’d raised animals and asparagus, edited a local newspaper, and worked as a substitute teacher. His politics were straight-up progressive: all in for a Green New Deal, single-payer health care, marijuana legalization, reproductive rights, gun control and UBI.

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Because the race was presumed to be over before it began, there’s been no reliable independent polling—and thus no real way to measure whether Broihier is actually breaking through. The campaign is banking on Broihier dominating the one debate with McGrath on public television on June 1. They’re cranking up just the kind of smart-sounding, data-driven MOTV (mail out the vote) effort that you should, by now, be expecting. And they’re counting on Yang’s support to boost his national profile, and help scare up enough money to buy paid media down the final stretch.