Forward Kentucky: 2022 Primary: Winners, losers, drama, and all results
Berry Craig
By BRUCE MAPLES
The 2022 primaries have come and gone, but their impact will be felt for some time.
Many people sort of pooh-pooh primaries, and don’t make much of an effort to get to the polls. (I was a poll-worker yesterday, so I speak from experience.) And yet, in a dramatically polarized state like Kentucky, the primary is often THE election.
As noted before, many races went uncontested at the primary level, which you can see by scanning the tables below. As a result, there were very few upsets. There was, however, a little drama tied to the growing split in the GOP, and one race matching a long-LONG-time incumbent against a sorta-newcomer.