Now, another independent poll shows a tight race for the U.S.

Senate in Kentucky on the Republican side.

The poll from Quintus Insight shows Congressman Andy Barr with 28% of the vote.

Former Attorney General Daniel Cameron with 27%.

And businessman Nate Morris at 17%.

8.5% say they are for someone else, and about 19% say they're undecided.

A poll released yesterday from Emerson College and Fox, 56, in Lexington showed Barr leading Cameron 27 to 24, with Morris at 14.

Congressman Barr talked about those poll results and why he thinks he's ahead.

During a stop for his U.S.

Senate campaign today in Louisville.

I know I'm winning not just by the polls, but by the trajectory of the polls.

I'm the only candidate that's rising in the polls consistently since the beginning.

Every poll independent otherwise is showing me moving in the right direction.

And now I've taken a lead.

I've taken a lead in two independent polls, because people outside of my district are starting to understand that I'm the best candidate to keep the seat in Republican hands, the best candidate who has an authentic record of supporting, President Trump.

Not someone who says that they support President Trump and gives thousands of dollars to President Trump's primary opponent in 2024.

But the real chairman of his campaign, that's why we're surging in the polls.

At the campaign stop, Barr also announced his endorsement for Republican Ed Gal, right, in the fourth Congressional District race.

Gallery is running against U.S.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie and has received President Trump's endorsement.

Trump has openly feuded with Massie for pushing back against him on several issues, and has called for Massie to be ousted from Congress.

Barr says his decision to back Paul Ryan was not based on Trump's endorsement, but on which candidate will support the president and his agenda.

It's an honest disagreement that I have on both substance and substance and policy and on tactics with Mr.

Massie.

It's not personal, but I believe we need America first, members of Congress who will stand by their word and be for President Trump's agenda.

This was a decision I made on my own.

I, I've gotten to know Ed.

I knew Ed before.

Yeah.

He even decided that he was going to run for Congress.

He and I had been talking recently about how he met me, I think, during my second term of Congress.

And I learned that he was a Navy Seal and I thanked him for his service.

And I've really been an admirer of his service and patriotism to the country for a long time.

And I have confidence that, Adeline will not only be a strong advocate for President Trump and be and work with me shoulder to shoulder with President Trump, but also that he will he will be a team player who will focus on voting with Republicans to advance President Trump's agenda as opposed to opposing President Trump's agenda and voting with Democrats.

And that's what we need.

We have a thin majority in the US House of Representatives.

This is my last term in the U.S.

House of Representatives, but I care about having a functional majority, and we need a majority in the House of Representatives or or members of the House Republican Conference are voting with President Trump, not against President Trump.

And they are voting with the speaker and with other Republicans, as opposed to collaborating with Democrats.

Barr was asked if he thinks President Trump will endorse him in the US Senate contest.

Barr says he does because Trump knows that Barr will continue to be someone who will fight for the president's agenda.