KENTUCKY — Secretary of State Michael G. Adams said that he was "proud of the millions of Kentuckians who defied a pandemic to participate in a historic election," and he called Kentucky’s 2020 Primary and General Elections a national model.

Morgan McGarvey is a Democratic member of the Kentucky Senate and serves as the Minority Leader, a position he has held since 2018.

McGarvey re-joined In Focus Kentufky and shared his reaction to Novmber's general election reuslts.

"We have to go back to the drawing board to some extent, and say, Okay, what is our message. How are we getting it out to people how are we letting people across the state of Kentucky know that we see them we hear them and care about them, that our fundamental message of getting better jobs, of having better schools, more access to health care is really, truly a message for everybody, as well as hitting on some of the things that we talked about in Kentucky nationally, we need to make sure we have a just and equitable system for every Kentucky regardless of what part of Kentucky you live in, that we need to have in Kentucky we can lead to our kids and our grandkids," explains McGarvey.

Nineteen of Kentucky’s 38 state senate seats are up for election in 2020. The outcomes of the 2020 election cycle in Kentucky stand to influence the state’s redistricting process following the 2020 Census. In Kentucky, the state legislature is responsible for drafting both congressional and state legislative district plans. District plans are subject to a gubernatorial veto.

Republicans control the Kentucky Senate, holding all but 10 seats. One incumbent – Republican Rep. Albert Robinson – was defeated in the June 23 Primary Election, making 2020 the first election since 2014 an incumbent senator was defeated in a primary.