EXPLAINER: Why AP called Kentucky for Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared Republican Mitch McConnell, the majority leader of the U.S. Senate, the winner of Kentucky’s Senate race at 7:56 p.m. EST. The call came after an analysis of ballots statewide concluded there were not enough outstanding to allow Democrat Amy McGrath to catch up. With 59% of the expected vote counted, McConnell led McGrath by roughly 13 percentage points. Those results matched data from AP VoteCast and an analysis of early voting statist