Posted on 11/08/2023 3:35:34 AM PST by thegagline
Gov. Andy Beshear has won the Kentucky governor’s race, beating his Trump-endorsed challenger, Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, to secure a second term.
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The 45-year-old Beshear, son of former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear, is the first Democratic governor to win reelection in the commonwealth since 2011, when his father accomplished the same feat. ***
In one of the nation’s most expensive political campaigns, where nearly $74 million was raised and spent, Beshear maintained a high level of popularity in his first term as governor despite being a Democrat in Kentucky’s increasingly Republican-leaning political climate. In his re-election pitch to voters, Beshear touted his moderate views, an “economy on fire,” support for public education and leadership during times of crisis, including the COVID-19 global pandemic, devastating tornadoes and horrific floods that ravaged parts of Eastern Kentucky.
In its final weeks, the campaign turned ugly. Cameron, 37, criticized Kentucky’s development trends under Beshear’s watch, saying that the Democrat was exaggerating the vitality of the state’s economy. He also repeatedly linked Beshear to President Joe Biden, who is deeply unpopular in the commonwealth. Kentucky overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race, beating Biden by nearly a 26-point margin.
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Chris Hartman, executive director of the Kentucky-based LGBTQ rights group the Fairness Campaign, said Kentuckians re-elected their most pro-equality governor ever.
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Beshear’s campaign hit Cameron hard on the issue of abortion, airing multiple ads calling out the attorney general’s record of defending the state’s ban, which does not allow exceptions for victims of rape and incest. Recent polling suggested that the ban is highly unpopular among Kentucky voters.
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The democrats have now streamlined election fraud.
Theres no way.
The asshole already shut down two coal plants the minute it was announced he won.
Our elections are a joke.
Abortion, and voters are suckers for the child of a previous well liked politician.
Is a shame because democrats are destroying the country.
Maybe it’s not true in Kentucky, but mass immigration is also a major factor.
https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_state
Pay very close attention to the “Tabulation Methods” column.
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”
Joseph Stalin
The other state wide races were won by Republican candidates. Is the Republican base unable to devote their vote to a Black candidate? Has to be asked.
No. It’s much more simple than that. His father was a popular two term governor and he’s young and good looking. He’s a far left wing liberal but all elections are still local and he is still receiving a good amount of good will from his father who wasn’t governor all that long ago. If the GOP didn’t want to elect a black candidate, Cameron would have never been AG. For whatever reason, the people of Kentucky like Beshear. Simple as that.
Of course.
We might as well have never left European governance systems and just kept leadership via heredity via kings, princes, dukes, barons, etc.
If they want to keep a dictator who actually LOOKS LIKE AN ARYAN NAZI, then they’re free to freeze in the dark. Just hope these idiots don’t move to Florida.
....Cameron, a former McConnell aid who had the Republican Senate leader at his wedding in 2020, was described as the octogenarian lawmaker’s “protégé” throughout the race. The senator’s chief of staff even ran Cameron’s campaign. Polling shows McConnell is the least popular politician in America.
Our shallow emphasis on looks in our candidates is going to send our country to Hell. Thanks, women, for helping to keep the Nazi-looking Commie in power.
Proving the point today’s Americans are morally and spiritually bankrupt and without hope....It is high time God rains down severe judgement on America and it’s people.
The big Trump endorsement Sunk this poor guy .
He should of dodged that .
The kiss of death.
Dems vote on hate .
The Hamas demonrat father was a popular former governor .
All the other Gop candidates Won in Kentucky .
“I have known and worked with Daniel Cameron for a long time and he’s good on every common-sense policy there is. He’s a common-sense person. He will never let you down and he has my complete and total endorsement,” Trump, October 31, 2023
BS.
GOP won every other statewide race most by a country miles…
Only the governorship was lost and lost big. And there is no huge deviation in the numbers between it and other races to try to the “fraud” is why.
Folks need to stop blaming de facto fraud for every loss.
It’s clear Cameron lost and lost big and it was not because of Fraud.
Don’t follow KY close enough to say the reasons, but it’s clear Cameron lost.
Was it due to race? Abortion? Poor campaigning? I don’t know but this “it’s fraud” just doesn’t fly in this case
Be serious.
Dems were not going to vote Republican with or without Trump’s enforcement.
Want to blame Trump’s endorsement you better offer up some reasoning beyond that.
But it's even worse than that. Blaming every loss on the notion that the election was somehow fraudulently influenced effectively shuts down any soul searching or real analysis about why we have done nothing but lose since 2018.
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.” Joseph Stalin
under putin, russians vote
but the votes are NOT counted! it’s a big joke to pooty
“I will allow voting and I will also declare victory without ever counting a vote”
The whole state is red and he won? What a freakin joke!
Here in Pa. we got slammed . Red won 56 co. to 12 co. and still lost .All because of the mail in ballot B/S. Dem’s-595946 ,Rep-170206. I’m sure the ballots match the signatures.
Every other KY Gop candidate won without Trumps interference .
Trump is toxic and drives Demonrats to the polls .
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