Rand Paul

Cash on hand

$6,775,333

Federal Election Commission, October quarterly report12

Reporting period ended September 30, 2026

Last election

61.8%

Share of the vote.11

Election held in 2022

The state in 2024

Trump won Kentucky in 2024.

2028 plans

Is weighing a 2028 run for president: “We’re thinking about it and I would say 50-50. We’ll make a decision after the election.” Source: CBS News interview, reported by The National News Desk (opens in a new tab), March 27, 2026.

Lean is the state’s 2025 Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI): R+5 to R+9 is lean Republican, R+10 and up solidly Republican, and D+ leans Democratic. Approval is the latest published Morning Consult rating, from its quarterly survey of registered voters in each state. Last election is the share of the vote the senator won. Cash on hand is the campaign’s money at the end of the reporting period named.

In the Senate since

January 3, 2011

Leadership posts

• Chaired the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, 119th Congress

Committees

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
• Foreign Relations
• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship

A gold mark names a leadership post. The posts and committees are the 119th Congress’s, as senate.gov lists them: a chair led a full committee for the majority, a ranking member was the senior member of the minority on it. The 120th Congress, which Democrats control, names its own in January 2027.

Senator-elect

Andy Barr

Party

Republican

Next on the ballot

2032The current term ends January 3, 2033.

The two seats are on different ballots: this one in 2028, the other in 2032. From the 120th Congress Senate roster: holdover senators from congress-legislators (retrieved 2026-10-03) and the November 3, 2026 winners called by NBC News and the Associated Press, merged by scripts/build_120th.py (opens in a new tab) dataset, retrieved November 5, 2026.

2022 election

Won with 61.8% of the voteOfficial results (opens in a new tab)

2028

Six-year term. The seat is on the ballot November 7, 2028.

Cash on hand

$6,775,333

Reporting period ended September 30, 2026

Reported to

Federal Election Commission, October quarterly report (opens in a new tab)

Cash on hand from the latest Federal Election Commission filing of the senator’s campaign committee.

Each out of 100, as the group publishes it: Heritage Action and Turning Point Action (the senator’s lifetime scores), Club for Growth (the senator’s lifetime rating) and GOP Platform (2025), which measures agreement with the national Republican Party platform and is published by the Institute for Legislative Analysis.

Endorsed: the group endorsed the officeholder in that race. Opposed: the group said publicly not to re-elect the officeholder. None on record: no endorsement found in the sources listed.