will take place next month.

Kentucky's congressman representing parts of Western and central Kentucky won reelection.

Republican U.S. Representative James Comer will serve a 5th term in Congress.

Our June Leoffler spoke to the congressman on election night and has this report.

>> Comer picked up more than 70% of votes in his district, crushing Democratic opponent Aaron Marshall.

>> We worked very hard to get a grassroots organization.

I have a 7, I think Republican or 7 Democrat County judges in my congressional district.

We work very closely with the Democrat judges with the Democrat mayor.

I believe that the knot records organization speaks for itself.

>> The congressman has led the House Oversight Committee since 2023.

He dropped investigations into President elect Donald Trump and pursued and queries into President Joe Biden's administration and family.

He hopes a new president and Congress can pass immigration reform.

>> The federal government under the Biden administration made it harder to get people to come in to be legal guest workers.

And I don't think that's what needs to happen.

We need there's a process for illegal immigration.

We certainly need to have a quick efficient process to get people over here legally.

But that for the people that have come here illegally, that's a problem.

>> Congress rejected 2 immigration bills this year.

It did pass billions to support allies in foreign wars that spending Comer hopes to KET to a minimum.

>> That support Israel.

I support Ukraine, but we've already giving Ukraine a lot of money and it has been a lot of time campaigning with the 250,000 people in the first Congressional district.

They want our tax dollars bit own America first.

>> On home state matters.

The congressman doesn't say how he voted on Kentucky's constitutional amendment to allow school choice which was defeated.

>> That's a state issue.

And I kind of tried to stay back and let the state legislators work on trying to promote those those issues.

So I'll talk about those more on down the road.

>> A veteran Kentucky journalist says that response is telling.

>> The statement that the congressman made that get the most reaction from all of us in the studio was.

I'll be having a lot more to say about public education in Kentucky, which means he's going to run for governor in 2027.

You know, that's the job he really walks and almost got nominated for sort of 83 votes in 2015.

So he did not want It's a very much substantive on the issue of public versus private education.

>> Comer and in the Republican gubernatorial primary in 2015, Matt Bevin won that race and the governor seat that year.

Comer served as the state's agriculture commissioner from 2012 to 2016 for Kentucky edition.

I'm Jeanne LaFleur.

>> Voters re-elected all 6 of Kentucky's U.S. House members on Tuesday.

2 of the 6 were