He's not running. Kentucky Sports Radio Host Matt Jones bows out of U.S. Senate bid.

Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones announced Friday that he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2020, ending months of speculation over whether he would launch an outsider campaign with the goal of taking down U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Jones, who had for months publicly waffled on whether to run, had laid out a political path of appealing to conservative University of Kentucky fans who listen to the show he built and see him as a friendly figure.

The path will remain unexplored

“I am coming on this morning to make the announcement that I have decided not to do that,” Jones said. “I am not going to be a candidate for the office.”

In considering a run for public office, Jones saw the effect a political campaign could have on the media empire he created. Shortly after former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath got in the race, Jones was suspended from his television show, Hey Kentucky!, and later was permanently removed after he announced he was writing a book about McConnell called “Mitch Please.”

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