r/VoteDEM • u/bbeck2754 Washington, D.C. • 3d ago

Sen. Andy Beshear? Thanks, but no thanks, he says to prominent Dem supporters

https://amp.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article311962334.html?mkt_tok=NTU2LVlFRS05NjkAAAGcuO6Xlgnc0uf8UhwCzfVm6_FMgu_iRCFePPhBbIycPMXmOdeGTiCNgnYSnBY6K_sCHuCiitPTUYSqVjZRYK2HzWkKFxK3kFMhK-6l_702i0K9fA
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u/Describing_Donkeys 3d ago

I would have loved to see him go for it. I believe he wants to go for president instead, and I respect that, but I would have loved to see him go for the senate.

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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 3d ago

I would have loved it too, and he's probably the only Dem who could flip a senate seat there.

I know he's going to try to run for president, and I love Beshear but I still think about how a senate seat doesn't have term limits and president is 8 years...

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u/Honest-Year346 3d ago

Rocky Adkins would be the only other one who stands a good chance

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u/Macro_Tears 2d ago

I wanted him to run for president that most. I did want Pete but I feel like Beshear would have easily won

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u/joshul 3d ago

Bummer. Probably the only prominent statewide Dem that would have a chance.

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u/Iambikecurious 3d ago

He'd bring it to Bullock 2020 margins at best, but couldn't win a statewide federal race

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u/rjrgjj 3d ago

Naw. They will have him as a governor who can’t do anything but there’s not a chance in hell they’d send him to the senate where he can do whatever he wants.

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u/Mansa_Mu 3d ago

Andy would win, he’s stupid popular and it’s in a likely blue wave with a poor economy.

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u/avalve North Carolina 3d ago

He would definitely not win that senate race. Even if he’s the Dem nominee for president Kentucky isn’t going below R+20 in 2028. State and federal politics are very different beasts in appalachian states due to the high number of ancestral dems

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u/Im_Chad_AMA 2d ago

Yep we've seen this pattern play out a lot on both sides over the last decade. Voters are much more willing to cross the aisle for gubernatorial elections. Senate elections are becoming less and less "elastic': they very rarely go against the partisan lean of the state (or the outcome of the presidential election) anymore.

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u/RileyXY1 2d ago

Yeah. In the past three Presidential cycles only five states split their tickets for President and Senate. In 2016 no states did, in 2020 only Maine did, and in 2024 Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada all split their tickets.

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u/thekydragon Kentucky 2d ago

If it’s him against Daniel Cameron again, I think he’d have a decent shot of squeaking out a win, but he has his eyes set on the presidency.

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u/obamaswaffle 3d ago

Not at all surprised. He’s got his eyes on the White House.

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u/Background-War9535 2d ago

Hopefully he’s keeping his powder dry for 2028.

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u/MrKentucky KY-06 3d ago

Can’t blame him a bit. Andy Barr is uniquely strong in Lexington and his winning the primary will box any tiny chance of winning our Andy B would have.

Go do great things nationally, Andy