The battle lines are drawn in what could be the hardest-fought election of 2023: Kentucky Democratic Gov. Beshear will run for a second term against Republican state AG Cameron.
. Instead, Cameron — who would be Kentucky's first Black governor if he wins this fall — has touted support from former President Donald Trump, using his backing to counter arguments from Craft that he wasn’t sufficiently conservative.
“He’s got the best of both worlds: the McConnell skill set and the Trump endorsement,” said Al Cross, a longtime political journalist and columnist in the state who is also a journalism professor at the University of Kentucky.“Cameron is certain of every word he speaks, just like McConnell. He isn’t afraid to let a question go unanswered or let something go uncommented on,” Cross added. “It’s served him well.
Republicans also have an improved political environment from 2019, when then-Gov. Matt Bevin lost to Beshear. Bevin sported a dismal approval rating, having worn out his welcome with many on both sides of the aisle. Democrats’ 6-percentage-point voter registration advantage in 2019 has evaporated, and Republicans had a 1.5-percentage-point edge as of April. And Trump won Kentucky in 2020 by 26 percentage points.While many in Kentucky have long been familiar with his father, former Gov.
Beshear has framed himself as a governor focused on kitchen table issues, from trumpeting new infrastructure funding to repair a crucial bridge between Kentucky and Ohio to touting the state’s hitting its lowest-ever unemployment figures. Re-election, Cross said, would be a welcome example for Democrats of how their party “can still win in states with large rural populations and a Republican voting history.”
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