When Kentucky’s Republican Senate primary took shape last year, Rep. Andy Barr was staring down the barrel of a messy three-way race with a two-time statewide party nominee and an outsider flamethrower backed by some of President Donald Trump’s closest allies.
Now heading into Election Day, Barr has emerged from the scrap largely unscathed. He’s forced one opponent out of the race and carries an endorsement from Trump that gives him the inside track to advance to the general election and, in deep-red Kentucky, win the race to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell.
The battle for that endorsement, Kentucky Republican officials and strategists told…
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