肯塔基州法兰克福。民主党人查尔斯·布克在去年的参议院初选中差点落败，他说他“强烈考虑”再次竞选参议员，与共和党人竞争兰德·保罗。
布克，一位来自路易斯维尔的前黑人州议员，回到了进步的理念，如普遍的基本收入和全民医疗保健服务因为他提出了发起2022年竞选的前景。
布克周日在肯塔基州教育电视台表示:“我强烈考虑在2022年竞选美国参议员，因为我相信我们的工作还没有完成，我们有能力为肯塔基州讲述一个新的故事。”
布克说他将很快决定是否参加竞选。
布克在去年年底的民主党参议院初选中抓住了势头，开展了“胡德到霍尔”运动，突出了黑人民主党人在城市和肯塔基州东部山区中低收入白人之间的共同利益，他将这些人统称为“被遗忘的人”。他的努力在竞选后期火了起来，但没有成功，他输给了艾米·麦格拉思，后者拥有来自该州境外的大量财政支持。11月，麦格拉思输给了共和党人米奇·麦康奈尔。
布克将在共和党倾向的肯塔基州面临与保罗的艰难斗争。保罗，前总统候选人，是一个倾向自由主义的共和党人，有着强大的民族品牌。
在初选失败后，布克创建了霍尔倡导组织胡德，以帮助建立城乡联盟医疗保健服务和反贫困问题。
布克说:“这些事情没有党派之分。“我们只是让国家政治来决定叙事，像米奇·麦康奈尔和兰德·保罗这样的人告诉我们，我们是分裂的。”
Booker 'strongly considering' 2022 Senate run in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Democrat Charles Booker, who nearly pulled off an upset in last year's Senate primary, said he's “strongly considering” another run for the Senate against RepublicanRand Paul.
Booker, a Black former state lawmaker from Louisville, returned to progressive ideas such as a universal basic income and universalhealth careas he raised the prospect of mounting a 2022 campaign.
“I’m strongly considering a run for the United States Senate in 2022 because I believe our work is not done and we have the ability to tell a new story for Kentucky," Booker said Sunday on Kentucky Educational Television.
Booker said he'll decide soon whether to enter the campaign.
Booker seized momentum late in last year's Democratic Senate primary on the strength of a “Hood to the Holler" campaign that highlighted the common interests of Black Democrats in the cities and middle- and low-income white people in the mountains of eastern Kentucky — which he collectively has defined as “people in forgotten places.” His effort caught fire late in the campaign but fell just short and he lost to Amy McGrath, who had significant financial support from beyond the state's borders. McGrath lost to Republican Mitch McConnell in November.
Booker would face an uphill fight against Paul in Republican-trending Kentucky. Paul, a former presidential candidate, is a libertarian-leaning Republican with a strong national brand.
After his primary loss, Booker created the Hood to the Holler advocacy group to help build rural-urban coalitions onhealth careand anti-poverty issues.
“Those things aren't partisan,” Booker said. “We just allow national politics to dictate the narrative, and people like Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have told us we're divided.”
