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Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker announces US Senate run

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Senate Minority Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks on the Senate floor, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Senate TV via AP)

Schumer hopes 4 GOP senators will join Democrats in demanding key witnesses for impeachment trial

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Amy McGrath officially files papers to challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 in Frankfurt, Ky. Calling her party's victory in the Kentucky governor's race a jolt of momentum for her own bid to unseat a Republican incumbent, Democrat Amy McGrath on Friday officially filed to challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in what looms as a bruising, big-spending campaign next year. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

Amy McGrath and Mike Broihier, Kentucky Democrats, mount efforts to unseat Mitch McConnell in 2020

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

McGrath files to challenge McConnell in Senate race

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump turns to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watches, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Donald Trump on Dems: ‘They treated us very unfairly and now they want fairness in the Senate’

By Alex Swoyer and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after saying on the floor that he wants to call top White House officials to testify for the Senate trial, which is set to start next year if the House impeaches President Donald Trump this week, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Chuck Schumer digs in on demand for vote on witnesses before Senate impeachment trial begins

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks on the Senate floor, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Senate TV via AP) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell fires back at impeachment trial critics: ‘Let’s quit the charade’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., right, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., second from left, in a private room just off the House floor after the House votes to impeach President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats eye more articles of impeachment against Donald Trump

By Gabriella Muñoz and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks with reporters after walking off the Senate floor, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

McConnell touts benefits to Kentucky in spending package

By DYLAN LOVAN - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, leans in to speak to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) **FILE**

Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer fail to reach agreement on Senate impeachment trial

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks on the Senate floor, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Senate TV via AP) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell: House Democrats showed ‘partisan rage,’ now ‘too afraid’ for impeachment trial

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters outside the West Wing on the North Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump heads to Florida while impeachment trial still cloudy

By ANDREW TAYLOR and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., walks from the chamber through Statuary Hall a day after the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi impeachment threat upends Constitution, fuels partisan furor

By Alex Swoyer and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., left, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, right, dismisses the impeachment process against President Donald Trump, saying, "I'm not an impartial juror. This is a political process," as he meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Mitch McConnell urges House Democrats to ‘pull back’ on impeachment vote

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Republican Daniel Cameron is sworn in on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, in Frankfort, Ky., as the first African-American in Kentucky history to serve as its attorney general. Cameron’s hand is on a Bible being held by his mother, Sandra Cameron, as U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove administers the oath of office. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

Cameron becomes Kentucky’s first African American AG

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pauses outside the chamber to speak to reporters when asked about the race for Kentucky governor, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. The race for governor in deeply Republican Kentucky was too close to call despite a last-minute boost from President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell impeachment trial recusal would disqualify scores of Democrats

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, fields questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell: ‘No chance’ that Donald Trump is removed from office

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fields questions from reporters about an impeachment trial in the Senate shortly after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced House Democrats are pushing ahead with formal charges against President Donald Trump saying he has put U.S. elections and national security at risk, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Mitch McConnell files for seventh term in Kentucky

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speaks with reporters, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Washington, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell expects long-delayed defense bill to pass soon

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, fields questions from reporters about an impeachment trial in the Senate after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced House Democrats are pushing ahead with formal charges against President Donald Trump saying he has put U.S. elections and national security at risk, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate poised to pass legislation on defense, trade, spending as impeachment trial looms ahead

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times