I did not support Andy Beshear the first time. #KYGov: Andy Beshear is up with this spot. Beshear has been great for business,” he says. He’s getting things done, and that’s what matters. “The wages are up because the jobs are up. The campaign declined to further identify the man in the ad. He didn’t vote for Beshear in 2019, he said. Jim, a Republican small business owner, narrates an ad on the air touting Beshear’s record on the economy. One of those messages was highlighted by a Republican. So, he’s had more time to use his own campaign to put out a positive message to Kentucky voters. ‘Republicans for Beshear?’Ĭompared to Cameron’s campaign – which, despite winning the primary in landslide fashion, had to unload resources to fend off former ambassador Kelly Craft and Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles – Beshear and PACs supporting him didn’t have to spend much at all before the primary election ended.
He also took an implicit dig at Cameron, stating that it “ought to be a pretty easy call for anyone in public service” to denounce Deters’ language. When asked if Deters’ offensive words were the reason he pulled out of Freedom Fest or if he condemned the comments, Cameron did not answer directly.īeshear threw some fuel on the fire on Thursday at his weekly press conference when, unprompted, he condemned Deters’ words and said that Massie was “right” to call him out on the matter. Though the timing could mean that Deters’ comments played a part in the Cameron decision, Cameron’s response to repeated questions on Tuesday didn’t confirm that. Massie – who argued that Deters’ support in the Northern Kentucky region is largely a mirage and that Cameron’s appearance would have garnered significant negative national attention – applauded the decision. The campaign responded on Sunday that it’s “going to be doing other campaign events that day in another region of the state.”
In reporting on Deters’ racist comments and Massie’s continued calls for Cameron to forego attending the event, the Herald-Leader reached out to the Cameron campaign for comment last Friday. Representative Thomas Massie got his way in a recent tiff with Daniel Cameron over Cameron’s planned attendance at Freedom Fest, a popular Northern Kentucky conservative rally hosted by Cameron’s former primary opponent and Massie’s likely future one Eric Deters. Kondik’s organization has rated the race as “leaning” towards Beshear, but they were wrong on the last two Kentucky gubernatorial races, failing to predict Beshear’s 2019 win and Democrat Jack Conway’s loss to former governor Matt Bevin in 2015. When you’re on the right side, you nationalize,” Kondik said.
When you’re on the wrong side of the partisanship in a given place, you localize. “It’s this classic nationalization versus localization strategy. It ends with a shot of Beshear flanked by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The ad closes with a simple message: “Andy Beshear, putting liberal politics over parents.”Īnother ad – this one from Bluegrass Freedom Action, which spent in favor of Cameron during the crowded GOP primary – skewers Beshear for appointing several Democrats to the Kentucky Board of Education and releasing prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ad highlights several social wedge issues on which it casts Beshear as too progressive: abortion and school involvement in psychological treatment and gender transition surgery. Leading a commercial with a clip of Democratic President Joe Biden saying “there’s no such thing as someone else’s child,” the RGA-backed PAC Kentucky Values has a commercial tying Beshear to what conservatives have cast as a Democratic-led “war on parents.” The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is going after Beshear – and hard. There are fewer than six months until the November 7 general election in which Kentuckians will decide the commonwealth’s next governor: incumbent Democrat Andy Beshear or Republican challenger Daniel Cameron. This is part of an occasional Herald-Leader series, Trail to ‘23, to catch readers up on all the latest from this year’s Kentucky elections, most notably the governor’s race.
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