Stunning?....Nope!
Demon-rats always win close elections.
Four reasons Bevin lost:(1) He is a Yankee in the most Southern of the border states;(2) voter fraud in Louisville; (3) the Democrat was not a bomb throwing AOC type but the son of a former governor; (4) he angered constituents by supporting toll bridges in one of only two states that EVER abolished their toll roads. All in all, the Republicans swept the other statewide offices. So the Bluegrass State was an overall win. My concern is with the conversion of Virginia into South Maryland.