The White House has released a loose transcript of a phone call in which Trump pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden. And all I have right now are news stories,” he said in an interview, making no reference to the two public documents fueling charges that Trump abused his power by asking a foreign leader to investigate a political rival. “As Kentucky’s top prosecutor, I make my decisions based on facts and evidence. The state Republican Party quickly challenged Beshear to “stop hiding” and take a stand on whether he supports impeaching Trump.īeshear, a state attorney general whose affable demeanor cuts a contrast to Bevin’s bombast, wouldn’t bite. Bevin often plays up his ties to the president in campaign ads, tweets and speeches. His appearance at a mid-October rally for an endangered Republican congressman was seen as crucial in the Kentucky incumbent’s reelection in 2018. Trump, who easily carried Kentucky in 2016, remains a commanding presence in the bluegrass state. But nobody knows how this thing is going to play out.”
“He’s likely to benefit, at least at the start. “Republicans are circling the wagons, and Bevin is helping lead that charge,” longtime Kentucky political commentator Al Cross said in an interview. Matt Bevin, a Trump loyalist with a slash-and-burn style similar to the president’s. In Kentucky, Beshear is locked in a close race with Gov. Photo by Kyle Carter/Reutersįor Republicans who’ve been working to nationalize their races all along, the impeachment news couldn’t have come at a better time. State of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood talks to reporters after former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen’s sentencing in Philadelphia, in this June 23, 2005, file photo. The ugly debate suddenly threatens to turn their races into the first test of the unpredictable politics of the impeachment, a gauge on how effectively Democrats can focus voters on issues amid partisan warfare.
House Democrats’ decision to launch an impeachment inquiry has undoubtedly made that harder. As red-state Democrats, their best chance at winning is to sell their platforms and personalities - not their partisan affiliation - and keep their distance from the turmoil in Washington. While Democrats in Washington charge ahead with an impeachment inquiry, their party’s candidates for governor in Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana are doing all they can to steer the conversation away from Trump and toward safer ground back home. For a few minutes, in a corner of this center, it was a Trump-free zone.īeshear and other Southern Democrats running for governor this fall want to keep it that way.
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He vowed to crack down on robocalls that target the elderly and talked about combating the cost of prescription drugs. On Thursday, as President Donald Trump mused about a possible “spy” in the White House, Democrats alleged a “cover-up” and Washington fired up the gears of impeachment, the Democratic candidate for governor in Kentucky, Andy Beshear, was politely shaking hands at a senior center.
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