How Kentucky Could Elect a President
PoliticoShould Attorney General Daniel Cameron win, he’d be the first Black Republican governor since Reconstruction. It’s the ribbon-cutting on that new factory that’s going to employ 400 people at almost $40 an hour in Henderson.” If Beshear sounds disciplined, on-message and focused entirely on his state, well, you’re onto something. “If Beshear wins, he instantly will become part of the ’28 discussion,” David Axelrod, the mastermind of Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, told me. At that same donor gathering at which McConnell called Bevin “a jerk,” the senator urged the contributors to consider helping Cameron by emphasizing what he’d mean to the party and the country, according to a source in the room. “Leader McConnell’s been very helpful,” Cameron said, before quickly noting the same about the other, more Trump-friendly members of the Kentucky congressional delegation.
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