Andy Barr Among Winners in Kentucky

Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr has easily won the GOP nomination in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District ahead of what's likely to be an intense re-election campaign in November.

Barr defeated businessman Chuck Eddy on Tuesday. He will face the winner of the crowded Democratic primary in November.

Democrats are targeting Barr's seat as they try to win a majority in the House of Representatives. The district has flip-flopped between the two major political parties since the 1970s. Barr was first elected in 2012, when he ousted Democratic incumbent Ben Chandler.

In the House, Barr is chairman of the Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee.

GOP Congressional District 3

An attorney and former appointee of Gov. Matt Bevin has won the Republican nomination in Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District.

Vickie Yates Brown Glisson defeated two other candidates for the chance to face Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth in November.

Glisson was an attorney with the Louisville firm Frost Brown Todd. In 2015, Bevin appointed her secretary for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the state's largest government agency. She resigned in January to run for Congress. She opposes the Affordable Care Act, saying it keeps health care costs high by eliminating competition.

Yarmuth is a Louisville native who has been in Congress since 2007, where he is the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

The district encompasses most of Louisville, Kentucky's largest city.

Democratic Congressional District 6

Former military fighter pilot Amy McGrath has won the Democratic nomination in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, setting up a tough fall campaign against a Republican incumbent.

McGrath, a political newcomer, defeated Lexington Mayor Jim Gray to win the crowded Democratic primary Tuesday. She'll face Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr in the fall in the district stretching from the bluegrass to the Appalachian foothills.

McGrath played up her military career, which ended in 2017 when she retired from the Marine Corps as a lieutenant colonel who had flown 89 combat missions.

She portrayed Gray as the "establishment candidate." She overcame a late attack ad in which Gray pointed out that McGrath was a newcomer to the district despite her Kentucky roots.

McGrath, who moved to the district last year after her military career, called the ad an attack against any military veteran who goes home to serve in another way.

GOP Congressional District 5

Hal Rogers has easily won the Republican nomination in Kentucky's 5th Congressional District to seek a record 20th term in Congress.

Rogers defeated Gerardo Serrano in Tuesday's Republican primary. He will face the winner of the Democratic primary, either attorney Kenneth Stepp or former Elkhorn City councilman Scott Sykes.

The 80-year-old Rogers has been in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. He is the state's longest-serving Republican in Congress, besting U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell by four years.

Rogers was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee from 2011 to 2016. He has focused in recent years on revitalizing the eastern Kentucky coalfields, which have suffered economically by the decline of the coal industry.

The 5th Congressional District includes most of eastern Kentucky.