<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attended a rally Sunday with former Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker, who is considering another run for the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>The “Rally for Kentucky’s Working Class” was held outside the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.</p>
<p>Booker, a Democrat whose unabashedly progressive campaign in Kentucky came up just short in last year’s Senate primary, is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-senate-elections-access-to-health-care-rand-paul-health-e0b5f60edce1b67d9f02e9e5be8596f4">forming an exploratory committee</a> as he weighs a follow-up race in 2022 against Republican incumbent Sen. Rand Paul.</p>
<p>Sanders thanked Booker ”not just for being here today but for showing this state and this country what grassroots activism can mean. And despite being heavily outspent, Charles ran a campaign that the whole country looked at and I have a feeling that the next time around, the results are going to be different.”</p>
<p>Last year, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell trounced well-funded Democratic challenger Amy McGrath, who narrowly defeated Booker in the state’s Democratic primary.</p>
<p>“I got a little bit of nostalgia here standing on this stage," Booker, a Black former state lawmaker, told the crowd Sunday. "We were starting to tell a story, and I think we’re not done telling that story, if you understand what I’m saying.”</p>
<p>Booker seized momentum late in last year’s Democratic Senate primary on the strength of a “Hood to the Holler” campaign that highlighted the common interests of Black Democrats in the cities and middle- and low-income white people in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.</p>
<p>“We’re here today not to just rally for the sake of feeling good, but to get ready for the work that comes after we leave here,” Booker said. </p>
