WASHINGTON — Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, became the first Kentucky Republican in Congress to endorse former President Donald Trump’s efforts to win his old job back, posting an endorsement on social media in December. 

The next month, Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Somerset, posted his endorsement on his campaign website and Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, shared his on social media. 

In February, Congressman James Comer, R-Tompkinsville, told Spectrum News in an interview that he supported Trump as the nominee.

“I’ll vote for Donald Trump,” he said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, gave his backing in March via a social media post, after months of withholding comment on the election.

After a jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts last month, all of Kentucky’s Republicans on Capitol Hill shared statements criticizing the criminal case prosecuted by the Manhattan district attorney.

But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Congressman Thomas Massie, R-Crescent Springs, have not endorsed Trump.

They told Spectrum News last week that they want to see more from him.   

“I think that it’s important that if he wants to get my vote and my support and wants me to be more active in this, that he’s going to have to be more vocal on things like the lockdowns that I opposed, like the civil liberties abuses that I opposed, like the debt, which frankly, has been bad under Republicans and Democrats, so I’m looking for a little bit more before I make a final decision,” Paul said on June 4.

“I’m of a very similar mind,” Massie told Spectrum News later that day. “I need to see some guarantees … Trump is endorsing non-conservatives in Republican primaries right now, so I can’t get behind that.”  

Massie would also like Trump to say that he will free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former contractor Edward Snowden, he said.

Still, Massie said that he expects to cast his delegate vote for Trump at the Republican National Convention in July.