Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, is projected to win reelection to a second term in office Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general, according to the NBC News Decision Desk.

Beshear, 45, led the Trump-backed Cameron, 37, for most the campaign, but late polling showed the candidates in a dead heat.

Beshear is broadly popular with voters, with a 60% approval rating, despite governing as a Democrat in a socially conservative state where voters overwhelmingly backed former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.

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    1 year ago

    Oh yeah, we still need to fight like hell. But they’re too entrenched to do a re-think at this point. Their base is too crazy. They’ve dug their hole and we have to make sure voters know what they want to do. When voters hear about it, they clearly don’t like it.