The Kentucky governor’s race was teed up to be about Obamacare — just like the last one. Until it became all about abortion
The Kentucky governor’s race was teed up to be about Obamacare — just like the last one, which put Republican Matt Bevin into office. Until it became all about abortion.
A businessman turned politician, Bevin came into office four years ago on an anti-Obamacare message and is still threatening to throw hundreds of thousands of poor people off Medicaid if he can't overhaul the program around work requirements, which the Trump administration approved but the courts so far have rejected.
Democrats respond that Bevin is attempting to distract voters from his divisive record and rhetoric. In four years he’s gained a national reputation for, like the time he suggested that public school teachers on a sickout were to blame for the shooting of a 7-year-old girl at her home in Louisville. Anti-abortion opponents are closely watching the Kentucky race for hints about 2020, particularly whether voters will care enough about restricting abortion to cancel out their reservations about an unpopular incumbent — be it Bevin or Trump.
“Kentuckians overwhelmingly support pro-life protections, and Gov. Bevin has been proud to fight vigorously on behalf of the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable since day 1 of his Administration,” Bevin campaign manager Davis Paine said in a statement. “If you’re thinking about people who would use it as a litmus test for voting, it’s only about a quarter of Kentuckians,” Jones said.
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