US Senate candidate Pamela Stevenson slates Hopkinsville stop

Stevenson will meet voters at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, at the Carnegie Library on Liberty Street.
Pamela Stevenson

Pamela Stevenson, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat that Mitch McConnell will give up in retirement next year, plans a stop in Hopkinsville on Wednesday, May 14, as part of a statewide listening tour. She will meet voters at 5 p.m. at the Carnegie Library, 708 Liberty St., according to an announcement from his campaign.

A state representative from Jefferson County since 2021, Stevenson currently serves as minority floor leader. She is an attorney, an ordained Baptist minister and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. 

Stevenson was the Democratic nominee in the Kentucky attorney general’s race in 2023 and lost in the general election to Republican Russell Coleman. 

She is among several announced candidates for the 2026 U.S. Senate race. Among the Republican candidates is Daniel Cameron, the former Kentucky attorney general who lost his bid for governor to Democrat Andy Beshear in 2023. Cameron was McConnell’s legal counsel in the Senate from 2015 to 2017. Also, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a Republican from Lexington, has announced he is running. 

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