Posted on 05/20/2015 7:58:09 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky's volatile Republican primary for governor ended in a virtual tie Tuesday night as less than 100 votes separated Matt Bevin and James Comer.
Republicans Hal Heiner and Will T. Scott conceded early, and it appeared Bevin was headed to an improbable victory following his lopsided loss to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in last year's primary. But Comer surged ahead by a narrow margin following returns from the western part of the state, including large margins in Warren County, where Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul lives.
By the end of the night, Bevin led Comer by 83 votes. The Secretary of State's office was unsure how many ballots from the state's overseas voters, including soldiers, came in by the 6 p.m. deadline. The court ordered an extension on the deadline for another 11 days because of a problem with an outside vendor. But that extension applied only to 12 specific ballots.
There are no runoff elections in Kentucky and no automatic recounts. State law allows for recanvassing only if a county clerk or a county board of elections notices a discrepancy or if a candidate makes a written request to the Secretary of State.
Comer said late Tuesday that he would ask for a recanvass, which is essentially a review of the vote totals in each county. State law says a recanvass would happen on May 28.
"This has been a difficult election. We've gone through a lot together in this race," Comer told supporters at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Frankfort. "We overcame so much money, we overcame the bad press with the newspapers in the state. We overcame a lot. And I owe it to our supporters to ask for a recanvass."
Bevin's campaign manager, Ben Hartman, said they "have a very high confidence
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I’ll take either of them. They are the only two I was rooting for.
Kinda like Cruz and Walker.
If I remember correctly Comer was the only elected Republican left in a state government office so I am sure he would have been backed by the McWeasal motorcycle gang calling themselves Republicans. I voted for Heiner but could support Bevin, I supported him in his race against McWeasal. Conway is the “official” Democrat nominee and is a sniveling little leftist punk.
If Comer wins eventually he will have to earn my vote as I am done voting for the GOPE and sadly the more I observe the GOPE/Vichy Republicans are just as ensconced in Republican state level politics as they are the cesspool that is Washington DC.
So you are “done” with the GOPe and the McConnell establishment, yet admit you voted for the candidate most associated with it in this race - Hal Heiner.
Interesting.
I did not know a Heiner-McConnell connection in the race. Had I known I would not have voted for Heiner.
McConnell wasn’t really involved in the race at all, so the candidate he would have been most associated with wasn’t very obvious. Some political operatives that have worked with him before actually were on opposing sides in the race.
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