Daniel Cameron looks to fill U.S. Senate seat, talks priorities and hopes

A familiar face to Kentucky politics made a visit to Hopkinsville, as former Attorney General Daniel Cameron makes his way across the Commonwealth in his race for U.S. Senate.

Cameron is looking to fill the seat that will be left vacant when longtime Senator Mitch McConnell steps down at the end of his current term. He’s well-known to Kentuckians, having served as the state’s Attorney General from 2019 to 2024 and making a bid to be governor against Andy Beshear in 2023.

Now, he’s looking for Kentuckian support again, as he faces a very crowded field for that U.S. Senate seat. Speaking with WHOP News, he says he’s looking to bring ‘radical common sense’ back to the U.S. and defend the rights of its citizenry.

His top three, first up priorities, if elected, would be ensuring American energy independence, tamping down inflation and other costs to put more money into people’s pockets and securing the Southern border.

Cameron is facing a battle for this seat, as on the Republican side, U.S. Representative Andy Barr has filed to seek the office, along with business man Nate Morris and Michael Faris. Several Democrats have filed, including Pamela Stevenson, Amy McGrath, Logan Forsythe and Joel Willett.

He says what sets him apart is that he’s proven he has Kentucky’s best interest at heart.

He says he remembers clearly trying his best to make coffee at his parents’ coffee shop in Elizabethtown as a kid, and what sticks with him the most is the fact that no matter our differences, we all want similar things in the end—even if that’s just a good cup of coffee.

Cameron invites people to get to know him, bring their concerns and questions to him, and he’ll answer him as best he can. He says he supports the idea behind Senator Rand Paul ‘Pennies Plan’ for a balanced budget and he supports the REINS Act, also known as the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny. That Act would make it so that both houses of Congress would have to approve any major rule from a federal agency before it came into effect.