KY Democrat Gov. Beshear Projected to Beat Trump-Endorsed GOP Candidate Daniel Cameron,
Republicans secured other major roles, though. I don’t think Trump endorsed them…
Incumbent Kentucky Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear is projected to hold the governorship.
Beshear, as of 8:37 PM ET, leads Daniel Cameron, the current attorney general, 53% to 47%.
Also, President Donald Trump fully endorsed Cameron. After the 2022 humiliation, you’d think candidates would want to stay away from Trump.
However, Republicans won other spots in Kentucky:
- Attorney General: Russell Coleman 58%
- Secretary of State: incumbent Michael Adams 61%
- Ag Commissioner: Jonathan Shell 60%
- State Auditor: Allison Ball 61%
- State Treasurer: Mark Metcalf 58%
Decision Desk HQ projects Gov. Andy Beshear (D) re-elected governor in Kentucky.#DecisionMade: 7:45pm EST
Follow more results here: https://t.co/8sug2Xq9ic pic.twitter.com/6bCNcph7Ao
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 8, 2023
BREAKING: LEX 18 can now project that Andy Beshear WILL win re-election as Governor of Kentucky over Daniel Cameron.
FULL RESULTS: https://t.co/p11Ts2GDvD pic.twitter.com/hJe2nOxVgc
— LEX 18 News (@LEX18News) November 8, 2023
Another great win for MAGA.
Oh wait…. https://t.co/cwNN72SX3s
— GayPatriot 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🌈 (@GayPatriot) November 8, 2023
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Considering there’s a Democrat president in the White House who’s approaching historically low approval ratings, this has been a very, very bad night for Republicans. Whatever lessons should be learned from tonight likely won’t be learned, just like they weren’t learned in 2022. Tonight’s results underscore what a horrible decision it was to extend Ronna McDaniel’s tenure.
Better candidates have to be fielded. GOPe candidates are milk toast in a red meat land.
Trump wanted to extend Ronna McDaniel’s tenure. And he got it.
Yes! But! It’s all part of his cunning plan! Seven dimension chess. Or something.
Kentucky, and especially Kentucky democrats, are thoroughly racist, apparently. Can’t elect those uppity black folk.
Why then did they nominate someone who wasn’t electable? Or maybe Louisville and the worse parts of Lexington had a big get-out-the-vote night. If there’s one thing they do in the inner city, it’s moving souls to the polls.
With the black left, a black conservative is, in Biden’s words, “not really black” and is more hated than a white conservative. We believed that comment was a gaffe and he would pay. Maybe he lost very few black votes actually, and even got out the leftist “real black” vote via that statement.
Because it’s easier to win a nomination than a general election. So the racists that wanted to vote against him couldn’t stop his nomination but they did screw him over in the general by voting for the Democrat.
I guess one solution to this problem is the open primary, where both parties can select the party’s candidate. South Carolina keeps electing Lindsey Graham to the Senate as a Republican, because Dems cross over in the Rep primary and keep making him the R nominee for his Senate seat. Hence, no “red meat” Republican in the mold of Strom Thurmond can emerge.
Of course the R’s should not nominate someone they can expect to have a big problem in the general, and they know it. But all systems can be sabotaged. Republicans have to learn to do this to Democrats. It is allowed by the rules of the game.
Especially the ones married to whyte wymyn.
Hey Mary
How’s little Ronnie with the high heeled cowboy boots doing again?
Kentucky is a bizarre state and they did this to themselves
iF President Trump wasn’t so busy defending himself day in and day out for frivolous lawfare, he could have done much for Cameron
As it was, he couldn’t
On another front Ohio can be stoned while killing their newborn babies
We are so screwed
God
It’s time
Give it a rest G.
The fact is BOTH would be magnificent Presidents.
Another Trump endorsed candidate bites the dust.
Hey Mary , Mark has some thoughts for you and your kind….
************************
Mark Levin
@marklevinshow
The truth about yesterday’s off year election.
Once dark red Virginia has moved blue because immigrants and federal bureaucrats have flooded into Northern Virginia, which has changed the state politically. In Kentucky, Cameron lost not because Trump endorsed him, as obsessively stupid Trump-hater Chris Christie claims, but because he is a Mitch McConnell protege (McConnell is a Gerald Ford protege) who was not a forceful advocate of conservative principles and Biden’s failures.This should be a lesson for Republicans, i.e., RINOs have no winnable message. Republicans will continue to lose on the abortion issue because the Dem Party & their surrogates spend for more on TV ads than the GOP spends on this issue, & the Dems use those funds to lie about their true policy, which is abortion until birth, no parental notification &virtually no regulation at all & lie about their opponents hating women.The point is people are voting on the propaganda they are being fed not the actual issue.
America today
Judge in Mississippi orders polls to stay open another hour because the Democrat is losing.
Democrat porn star may win
Right up there with Fetterman, brain damaged
All the anti Jewish / kill the Jews/ the Jews Squad
Brain dead Biden
One drop non Indian
Wow, what a world
Oh I forgot the dead guy in PA that one
A dead guy…
In Kentucky there wasn’t much of a GOP presence for Cameron. By design.
Thank McConnell
But Mary, let’s blame President Trump
You do you
“Mary, let’s blame President Trump”
Sorry, I don’t see where she “blamed Trump.”
I DO see where she said that being Trump-endorsed didn’t help him.
See the difference?
Hmm, you may need to read that post again
Don’t know much about this race but would be curious if Mitch McConnell supported him? Mitch is the Senate minority leader and long time GOP political power in KY.
Either he had some real flaws as a candidate or a significant portion of the GOPe voters refused to vote for him. Other statewide GOP candidates won easily.
Apparently a couple hundred thousand people voted for the down ticket Republicans, but not for the R up for governor.
McConnell mail in bundled votes
Weird, huh? Did Cameron have problems?
“Did Cameron have problems?”
Black man married to a white woman in Kentucky … ?
See above comment by Mark Levin
If legit, then all I can say is piss on the dogs and call in the campfire.
We are royally screwed, and Trump has no part in it.
White supremest win again.
Rs should be cleaning up this year but things are not working out…
Yeah … mail-in ballots will have that sort of effect. Get used to it because our courts seem to think that ballots that arrive with no clue as to how they got there or who really filled them out are no problem, at all – especially in anonymous electoral systems where, once a ballot is separated from its envelope and enters the system, it can never be retrieved or identified, again.
The US will probably put up with a few more of these bogus mail-in elections but at some point it’s all going to fall apart – quickly and in the ugliest sort of fashion.
Mail-in ballots didn’t undo Mr. Cameron.
If there were a couple hundred thousand improper mail-in ballots, the down-ticket Pubs also would have lost. The people who milk these ballots don’t fill in the ballot for one race, it’s straight ‘D’ all the way.
So the fact that the down-ticket Pubs did well means that there’s another reason why Mr. Cameron lost.
McConnells soldiers
Does Kentucky have the single checkbox to vote a straight ticket? If you have a way of sneaking 10,000 ballots into the office, it’s one thing to mark one bubble on each of 10,000 paper ballots, and quite another to mark all the downballot races individually. So I expect that cheating in a state with the straight ticket will benefit all candidates from one party, while without a straight ticket option it will only benefit one candidate.
“Also, President Donald Trump fully endorsed Cameron. After the 2022 humiliation, you’d think candidates would want to stay away from Trump.”
A) Elections – 2022
• Another mid-term election that followed historical precedents in the House – but not Senate.
• After the SC decision in June, abortion was a significant issue – maybe THE issue – for many citizens.
• More Trump endorsed candidates won their election than lost their election.
• “Trump’s endorsees won 216 of the 257 called races held on Nov. 8 (84%).” — Ballotpedia
B) Senate Election – 2022
• 16 of 24 Trump endorsed 2022 Senate candidates won (67%).
• 3 of 6 Obama endorsed 2022 Senate candidates won (50%).
• 1 of 2 Biden endorsed 2022 Senate candidates won (50%).
C) General Elections – 2018 to 2022
• Trump’ General Election endorsement success rate is as follows:
2022: 83%
2021: 67%
2020: 78%
2019: 67%
2018: 59%
• Obama’ General Election endorsement success rate is as follows:
2022: 74%
2021: 59%
2020: 40%
2019: 53%
2018: 68%
• Biden’ General Election endorsement success rate is as follows:
2022: 89%
2021: 50%
2020: 29%
2019: 00%
2018: 64%
D) 2018 Election
• In the last 20 mid-term elections, the party in the WH has lost seats in the House 20 times (100%).
• 6 Presidents have seen more House seats lost than Trump: -40 (Obama: -63, Clinton: -52, Ford: -48, LBJ: -47, Eisenhower: -48, Truman: -45).
• In the last 20 mid-term elections, the party in the WH has lost seats in the Senate 13 times (65%).
• Only 6 Presidents – including Trump: +2 – have seen seats gained in the Senate (Biden: +1, GWB: +2, Regan: +1, Nixon: +2, JFK: +3).
E) Control of Congress
• Since 1943/ 78th Congress, the Republicans have controlled the House 15 times (36.5%), and the Senate 13 times (31.7%).
• Since 2017/ 115th Congress, the Republicans have controlled the House 2 times (50%), and the Senate 2 times (50%).
• Since 1943/ 78th Congress, there have been 15 Presidents: 8 Democrat & 7 Republican.
• 3 (43%) Republican Presidents have seen their party control both the House & Senate: Eisenhower, GWB, Trump.
• 8 (100%) Democrat Presidents have seen their party control both the House & Senate: FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama, Biden.
Key Questions:
1) Why do TDS Republicans repeat Democrat talking points?
2) What can TDS Republicans learn from Democrats?
• see Democrats do not make the same claims about Obama & Biden that TDS Republicans make about Trump
3) When will TDS Republications understand that there are election patterns that existed long before Trump – and that many citizens are informed?
• the difference between feelings and facts is data
But I Mary will do Mary
It’s “feelings”
Hail Mary has to keep to her Never Trump script.
“Trump’s endorsees won 216 of the 257 called races held on Nov. 8 (84%).” — Ballotpedia”
OK, now back out the INCUMBENTS that Trump endorsed. Anyone can endorse a list of incumbent candidates and do spectacularly well because incumbents almost always win. The problem is the open seats or challengers that Trump endorsed in the primaries who then went onto to LOSE in the general election. Those candidates did spectacularly poorly. Oz, Walker, Lake, Cameron, Masters, Buldoc, Levy, Malloy, just to name a few.
“OK, now back out the INCUMBENTS that Trump endorsed.”
Why?
Those elections don’t count?
Why?
The candidate is going before the voters. It ALL the races.
Why would anyone on the right pull the leftist move of saying ‘it only counts if it helps my side’? They wouldn’t. Leftists do that.
I explained why in my comment…which you were apparently too stupid to understand.
The Dog Did Not Bark ^^.
“OK, now back out the INCUMBENTS that Trump endorsed.”
1) Do incumbents seek endorsements?
2) What is Trump’ record with the incumbents backed out?
3) What are Obama’ and Biden’ records with the incumbents backed out?
4) What are your answers to the “Key Questions”?
5) Why did you move-the-goal-post?
• see “Also, President Donald Trump fully endorsed Cameron. After the 2022 humiliation, you’d think candidates would want to stay away from Trump.”
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^^ = “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention? To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The dog did nothing in the night-time. ‘That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes.”
I don’t care what Biden and Obama’s records are. They’re not the de facto leaders of the GOP. Trump’s record with non-incumbent candidates is HORRIBLE which is why there was no red wave. Democrats spent MILLIONS helping Donald Trump-endorsed House candidates beat the other GOP primary contestants. Why? Because they knew the Trump candidates would be easier to beat…which they were.
This isn’t that complicated. It’s SHOCKING too few understand it. Donald Trump is one of the least popular former presidents in history and arguably one of the two least popular national politician today. Only Kamala Harris has net-approval ratings that occasionally eclipse Trump. There’s a reason Democrats are trotting out Harris to campaign for them. This is the reason. Republicans should learn something from that.
A) “I don’t care what Biden and Obama’s records are. They’re not the de facto leaders of the GOP. ”
• I believe you.
• And it strikes me that you are long on feelings/ emotion and short on facts.
• However, when compared to other leaders – Obama & Biden – Trump performs well.
• That is just a fact.
• It is also a fact that you have not presented any data to support your positions (including this latest one: “Trump’s record with non-incumbent candidates is HORRIBLE which is why there was no red wave.”)
• And it is a fact that you are moving-the-goal-post – again.
B) “This isn’t that complicated. It’s SHOCKING too few understand it. ”
• 100% agree – there does seem to be a lack of understanding, especially among those that lead with their feelings/ emotions.
• Which is why data, history and compares are useful (see Supreme Court Decisions, history of Midterms, etc.).
C) “Donald Trump is one of the least popular former presidents in history …”
• OK, you appear to be using Democrat talking points – again.
• In 2020, Trump had 74,223, 975 votes – undisputed votes – which was 17.84% more votes than he received in 2016.
• It was the most votes ever received by a Republican candidate (see Reagan, GWB, Bush, Nixon, etc.).
• It was also 19.64% more votes than the next highest Republican candidate (see 2004: GWB).
• In 2023, Trump leads all Republican primary challengers in every state – including Florida – and nationally by 40+ points.
• Trump leads the General Election polls – Trump v. Biden – and the lead keeps growing.
• Trump leads the Betting Odds – next USA President – and the lead keeps growing.
• Of course, the ultimate confirmation of how unpopular Trump is will be when he wins the 2024 election – if I am following your “logic”.
• To be fair, “talking points” – like those you used – can be useful to express a viewpoint, but they are not always accurate or fair (e.g., holding Trump to a different standard than other Presidents). Some may disagree.
• Thank you for the input.
What other sort of endorsement is there politically? A partial or qualified endorsement? That’s probably worse than no endorsement, so politically it does not exist, and “full endorsement” means the same as just “endorsement”.
But Trump likes to add amplifying words to things.
Seems like Trump is far down the line of reasons here, but he’s the lede.
If by “beat” you mean “cheat”, then I wholeheartedly agree.
I guess Leftists can’t stand the thought of Black man governing.
Ummm. Remember President Obama?
The idea that the Trump endorsement hurt is ludicrous. Trump is popular in Kentucky and will win the state handily in 2024. But you know who isn’t popular in Kentucky (or anywhere else)? Daniel Cameron was McConnell’s Senate counsel and was his hand-picked candidate. McConnell was the drag, not Trump.
Jingo, thanks for the post. Had very little info on Cameron. It may just be that Cameron was not a very good candidate, it happens. Also he was running against an incumbent who is a legacy candidate.
If he was ‘not a very good candidate,’ then why did Trump endorse him? It turns out, Trump has a history of endorsing ‘not very good candidates.’ See: Walker, Oz, Palin, etc, etc.
Trump also endorsed Ron DeSantis. Oh, you’ll leave that part out, huh, NeverTrumper?
“Trump also endorsed Ron DeSantis.”
And then he claimed that Andrew Cuomo handled Covid better than DeSantis.
ANDREW FREAKING CUOMO.
The man is a Grade-A narcissist. He doesn’t know how to look people in the eye and say, “I was wrong. I made a mistake. Forgive me.”
And of course, Trump’s take on political loyalty: “You be loyal to me. And I’ll be loyal to me, too.”
Pffft.
Doesn’t matter KY Squatch. He endorsed Ron DeSantis, so shut up.
“So ShUt Up!!!!”
Wow! Many persuasion! Much convince!!
If R’s don’t like McConnell who is one of the leaders of the Senate, would they be happier with a junior senator? Did they want Amy McGrath to be declared winner in the last election for that seat? (there’s a case that she actually won.) They don’t want all the power and perks for their state that come with having such a high-ranking senator?
Is that really true?
Mary
Below is the complete and
comprehensive list of all elected US politicians in the past 50 years whose financial net worth declined
as a function of government service:
1. Donald Trump.
So depressing that yet another covid tyrant has got away with it. It happened last November and now it has happened again. This one is especially disappointing because Kentucky is supposedly a red state.
What is wrong with Americans for not punishing these people?
Republicans are about to nominate Anthony Fauci’s boss to be their 2024 presidential candidate. I’m not sure why you’re surprised ‘covid tyrants’ are doing well.
I doubt if they are going to nominate Joe Biden.
“yet another covid tyrant has got away with it”
And ain’t it interesting that Drumpf claims Andrew Freaking Cuomo handled Covid better than Ron DeSantis?
“Republicans secured other major roles, though. I don’t think Trump endorsed them”
Kind of a weak analysis.
Cameron started to close the gap significantly in polling after the Trump endorsement
But there was still huge ticket splitting or non voting for Cameron on the ‘R’ side on someone who had held a statewide office before
other potential reasons for Cameron’s loss?
1) incumbency and popularity on handling natural disasters
2) poor campaign by Cameron (I can’t comment on this)
3) race – he also got no pull from the black community that was strongly against him because of the breonna Taylor case and may have lost votes from parts of Kentucky
4) peculiarities of Kentucky which is not a simple red/blue state
5) not enough support from RGA or Republican Party (don’t really know about this one to comment)
Could be something else but #1 combined with the oddities of why he was not treated as a historic first black governor potentially in #3 seems likely to me
‘Cameron started to close the gap significantly in polling after the Trump endorsement’
Huh? Trump endorsed Cameron in the PRIMARY.
Ah, Kentucky.
Republicans won the state again -except the governor seat. All those counties and districts that are solid red somehow turned blue for Beshear.
And the leftist nevertrumpers squawk ‘shouldn’t have run a Trump backed candidate
Why? Trump won Kentucky overwhelmingly.
People turned out in huge numbers to vote for Trump in a primary he could not lose in 2020 –just to show how much he was their guy.
And those people voted red last night for everyone else.
But we’re supposed to believe that they voted blue for Andy Beshear?
AFTER his covid performance?
No.
We’re also supposed to believe that Ohio voted to enshrine abortion and transing children in their constitution.
No.
Last night, the US took another giant step towards the shooting part of the civil war we’re in.
They don’t even bother to make it look believable anymore.
And in VA, Leftists voted for a disgusting man who thinks he’s a woman, a woman who is basically a porn star, and another woman who filmed herself peeing out in the wild like she is some animal. But NeverTrumpers keep thinking Trump is the problem.
Ah yes, I was waiting for some NeverTrumper to blame Trump for Cameron’s defeat. Can never miss the opportunity.
You know what else we can blame? If we use Leftist idiocy, we can blame Democrat racism against black people. But even that’s a cop-out.
We could also blame other nonsense too, such as low voter turnout or economic conditions. All of that would be a cop-out.
Instead, you don’t blame the one person who should be blamed and that’s Daniel Cameron. It doesn’t matter what endorsements a candidate gets, or voter turnout, or RAHCISM!!!, or anything else, if a candidate doesn’t run a good campaign and give compelling reasons why people should vote for him, then he is going to lose.
This could be a euphemism for Ron, but we’ll let this just be about Daniel Cameron, as it should be.
“This could be a euphemism for Ron”
… except for the fact that DeSantis stands head and shoulders above Trump when it comes to actual leadership.
[And for the record: Voted 3rd-party in 2016 — same as we have since at least 1996. And voted FOR Trump in 2022. But his handling of Covid — and mostly, just his REFUSAL TO REPENT for it — and his doing a Romney on abortion — coupled with DeSantis’ actual accomplishments — all convince us that Trump is not the guy y’all still seem to think he is.]
“except for the fact that DeSantis stands head and shoulders above Trump when it comes to actual leadership.”
He sure does…in six inch heels inside boots.
Spare me the nonsense on Ron DeSantis’ leadership. I would say his “accomplishments” have more ti do with FL being deep red and having a GOP controlled legislature. Get back to me when he gets that property insurance market in Fl figured out.
“I would say his “accomplishments” have more ti do with FL being deep red”
I would say you have that backward. FL is deep red BECAUSE OF his accomplishments.
FL was quite the purple swing state when he ran against Andrew Gillum in 2018 … and barely squeaked out a win, 49.6% to 49.2%.
After his first term, he kicked Charlie Crist’s azz, 59.4% to 40%.
FL was trending red well before DeSantis ran for office. He needed Trump’s to cross the finish line against a coked out, gay black man, as you indicated.
What could have also worked against Charlie Crist is that most Floridians were still familiar with the snake from his time when he was governor and then how he unceremoniously switched parties because he couldn’t stand to have lost to Rick Scott.
Here’s an indication of how strong DeSantis is for president: He is currently behind Trump in the state fo Florida, by a wide margin. So why if DeSantis is so accomplished, why aren’t Floridians choosing to support him over Trump?
“… except for the fact that DeSantis stands head and shoulders above Trump when it comes to actual leadership.”
Except for the fact that not a one of you would know DeSantis name if Trump hadn’t dragged him over the finish line.
He was losing to a crackhead..
And real curious about how you voted for Trump in 2022–get to the polls late?
“not a one of you would know DeSantis name if Trump hadn’t dragged him over the finish line.”
Who knows. Maybe, maybe not.
But you know good and well that DeSantis didn’t go from a 49.6% to 49.2% against Gillum to a 59.4% to 40% against Crist because of Trump.
It was because of his policies.
Including (primarily because of?) his Covid policy.
You know, the one where Drumpf claims that Cuomo handled Covid better than DeSantis?!
GTFOHWTBS.
“President Donald Trump fully endorsed Cameron. After the 2022 humiliation, you’d think candidates would want to stay away from Trump.”
We met Cameron at a campaign stop here in Bowling Green last week. We told him, “You have our vote, case closed. But please stop hitching your wagon to Teh Donuld, and focus your campaign on state issues.
We’re new to KY — just moved here from ID May 2022 — so we really can’t explain why the state that already has a veto-proof GOP supermajority in the legislature voted for Cameron. If I had to guess, I’d probably put deep-seated racism before Trump’s endorsement.
Of course, maybe KY voted Beshear BECAUSE of Donnie. After all, Drumpf told the world that Cuomo handled Covid better than DeSantis. And Beshear certainly TRIED the Cuomo route …
Jeez, did you actually just drag out ‘Drumpf?
Exactly WHAT third party were you voting for? Was it the Revolutionary Communist Party or the American Communist Party?
Jeez, did you actually just assume I’m a CoMMuNiSt!!! because I voted 3rd party in 2016?!
1996: Howard Phillips
2000: Howard Phillips
2004: Michael Peroutka
2008: Chuck Baldwin
2012: Virgil Goode
2016: Darrell Castle
2022: Donald Trump
… and 2024: Praying for a DeSantis nomination. (Trump is an incurable narcissist, and he WILL NOT be on enough ballots to win election anyway.)
I certainly hope that jumping to dumbazz conclusions isn’t the ONLY exercise you’re getting …
Again, how the hell did you vote for Trump in 2022?
And I called you a communist because you use their invective and don’t seem to know when elections are..
Wow, you certainly got me on that typo! (2022, vs. 2020!) Sick burn!! 🙄
“””Communists””” don’t vote for Constitution Party candidates, do they, Aza.
We voted for Trump in 2020 1. on the strength of his record, and 2. because of who his enemies were. But following his Covid DEBACLE (go on, tell us it WASN’T a debacle), and his Romneyesque backpedaling on the abortion issue, AND having seen DeSantis kick azz and take names, we’re firmly in Ron’s camp.
It’s interesting how, in every election, the left needed they walked away in a landslide winning. Between ignorant voters and rigging the left has won nearly every special and off-year election since 2020.
The House Republicans had better work fast. We may never control another chamber or office in DC again, the way the Dems have our elections buggered.