Posted on 11/05/2019 6:47:34 PM PST by conservative98
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear is the apparent winner over Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, a huge upset and a blow to President Donald Trump, NBC News projects.
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I think this is a good link:
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2019/mississippi/
You can find them here: https://data.clarionledger.com/election-results/mississippi/mississippi-election-results/
Yipes, 10 out of 12 go to Dem?
No longer have any tolerance for Dems.
Or house pests. Or poison ivy. Or food poisoning.
Gah. Lighten up Francis.
The GOP handily slammed the rest of the ticket. This guy was a terrible candidate.
Talking about this on the Ingraham Angle right now.
Laura stated that Bevin was the Most unpopular governor in the country AND that Beshear comes from a long line of Kentucky democrats with big time name recognition. Groomed from an early age to Kentucky politics.
Given this, this is a testimony to President Trumps influence that Bevin, as unpopular as he is facing a Kentucky dynasty candidate managed to lose by only ~4500 votes.
That said, her show highlighted clips from the MSM and they all claimed this was an indication of President Trump losing his ability to turn out votes. As you indicated would happen.
True, but Bevin is particularly unpopular. I have no idea how much of that is due to typical media bias and how much is due to Bevin’s avoidable self-inflicted wounds, but it sounds like he has done plenty to hurt himself.
Republicans apparently won all of the other statewide races even with the higher turnout.
Not so fast: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3791875/posts
AP is pulling back on their call.
5,000 votes is a “stunning upset?”
I do not think the President had the same issues with Blevin, at least nine years of. I was just saying that if the people of KY have a problem with Blevin there was nothing the President could do about it.
They had the stories written and ready to go and got the predicate for the reporting.
The down ballot shows that is not true and it was purely about Bevin. This was a very pro-GOP electorate - the SOS race being won given who the candidates were (not that the GOP candidate was bad, but the Dem Candidate was a very well known popular public figure whereas the GOP candidate was a complete unknown) and the blow-out margins of the other races for the GOP. There were places Bevin lost that the other GOP candidates won by 20%.
Not hard to believe when our Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes watched as her father and her former campaign manager were convicted two months ago for campaign finance fraud. Her father Jerry Lundergan was trained in campaign finance and vote fraud techniques when he served as a major campaign finance bundler for Billy Jeff Clinton. Something smells plenty fishy here in Ky. Just 4000 votes separate the candidates out of right at 1.5 million cast.
Don’t buy into the ‘not popular’ media blitz.
Many have been happy with his standing up to the teacher union cabal. Trying to save the failing schools. Trying to save the bankrupt retirement system. Good job market. Pro-Life, Pro-2A, pro-Free Speech. Yes, many really liked him.
“Just 4000 votes separate the candidates out of right at 1.5 million cast.”
Especially when so many Republicans won down ballot.
I live in Kentucky. I voted for Bevin. Those who voted Democrat are DUMBASSES. Period.
Post 95, you said it.
Only an idiot would vote for Breshear.
I suspect some of these votes where ‘dummy’ votes in more ways than one.
Hopefully, some of those scrubbed and judge enforced re-instated suspected bad voter roles can be researched now sufficiently.
My typos are getting bad,laf. Guess off to bed for me.
Prayers up for Bevin election!
They are continuing to talk about this. Apparently, Bevin is a Veteran with a very hard ass no compromise attitude.
It is his hard ass attitude that had rubbed many Kentucky people the wrong way. She is stating he took on the state unions from day one.
Including and especially the teachers union and this brought in huge union bucks advertising against him even before the election season started.
The unions have been on a character assassination campaign against Bevin since he was elected.
2007 - Steve Beshear (D) won by 17%
2011 - Steve Beshear (D) reelected by 20%
Governor cannot serve 3 consecutive terms in Kentucky
2015 - Matt Bevin (R) won by 9%
2019 - Steve Beshear (D - 49.2%) defeats Matt Bevin (R - 48.8%)
There is NO WAY this can be called a huge upset!
At this hour IT IS NOT OVER... Bevin trails Beshear by 3tenths of 1% of the vote... approx 4500 votes.
At this point it's being called "TOO CLOSE" to call.
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