Congressman John Yarmuth of Louisville has announced he will run for reelection in 2018. Yarmuth is the lone Democrat among Kentucky’s U.S. representatives and senators. In a statement, Yarmuth said that he was invigorated by those speaking out against President Donald Trump.
He currently serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee and has been a vocal advocate against efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He also helped organize the Congressional sit-in last summer, in which Democrats disrupted proceedings for 26 hours in support of gun control legislation. Yarmuth was reelected to his seat for a sixth consecutive term in November, defeating Republican Harold Bratcher by about 90,000 votes. Yarmuth defeated Republican Rep. Anne Northup when he first won the seat in 2006 and in a rematch between the candidates in 2008.
