Harold Bratcher

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Harold Bratcher

Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Harold Bratcher was a 2016 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Kentucky.

Elections

2016

See also: Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent John Yarmuth (D), the only Democratic candidate to file in the race, won re-election to his sixth term in 2016. He faced Harold Bratcher (R) and Everett Corley (Forefathers Party) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Yarmuth was unopposed in the Democratic primary, while Bratcher defeated Everett Corley and Robert DeVore Jr. to win the Republican nomination. The primary elections took place on May 17, 2016.

U.S. House, Kentucky District 3 General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	John Yarmuth Incumbent	63.5%	212,401
	Republican	Harold Bratcher	36.5%	122,093
Total Votes				334,494
Source: Kentucky Secretary of State

U.S. House, Kentucky District 3 Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Harold Bratcher	44.5%	9,578
Everett Corley	36.5%	7,857
Robert DeVore	18.9%	4,075
Total Votes		21,510
Source: Kentucky State Board of Elections

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Bratcher's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Economy: Bring jobs back to America and focus on living wages for all Americans. Tax Reform: Restructure our tax code system to benefit the middle class as well as corporations to make them more competitive in the global market. Keep more jobs in America. Campaign Reform: Focusing on term limits: By setting term limits we will keep the political landscape changing to help get rid of the “good ole boy” system we currently have in place. This will continually bring in fresh ideals to our political system and will also enforce the current politicians be more proactive to help our nation. We also need to hold all current politicians accountable and responsible to make roll call and read the legislation before they vote and require them to vote. Second Amendment: We have to protect our second amendment rights and not allow the government to take that away from us. Tort Reform: We need to allow the courts to stream line and throw out frivolous law suits and court cases so they can focus more on the serious issues.	”
—Harold Bratcher's campaign website, http://www.bratcherforcongress.com/

See also

• United States House of Representatives
• Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District election, 2016
• Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website
• Facebook page

Footnotes

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Kentucky's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Mitch McConnell (R)

Rand Paul (R)

Representatives

District 1

James Comer (R)

District 2

Brett Guthrie (R)

District 3

Morgan McGarvey (D)

District 4

Thomas Massie (R)

District 5

Hal Rogers (R)

District 6

Andy Barr (R)

Republican Party (7)

Democratic Party (1)