Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear appears to have won the Kentucky gubernatorial election, besting Republican incumbent Matt Bevin. Bevin, who’d initially hinged his campaign on fighting the Affordable Care Act, pivoted to attacking Beshear’s support of abortion rights shortly before the election, with the virulently anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List group door-knocking for the governor.
that “Abortion could decide Kentucky’s close governor’s race,” noting that “[t]he unpopular incumbent’s harsh attacks on Democratic challenger Attorney General Andy Beshear’s backing of abortion rights, rare for a Southern gubernatorial candidate, has Democrats worried about their chances slipping away in a race that has grown unexpectedly close.
Beshear’s apparent election is a much-welcomed blow to President Trump, who won Kentucky in 2016 and campaigned with Bevin. Another blow to Trump: Virginia, where Democratsthe Tucson mayoral election—she will be Tucson’s first Latina mayor, and the only Latina mayor in one of the country’s top 50 largest cities.
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