Incumbent Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear won a second term Tuesday, fending off a spirited challenge from Republican Commonwealth Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
Incumbent Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear won a second term Tuesday, fending off a spirited challenge from Republican Commonwealth Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who would have been the Bluegrass State’s first-ever black governor.
The race had been closely watched to see whether a popular Democratic chief executive could still win, despite running in a deep-red state and with a deeply unpopular president sitting in the White House.
Beshear, the son of former Gov. Steve Beshear, who led Kentucky from 2007 through 2015, is one of just three Democratic governors in the South or Southeast — a number that will be reduced to two when Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards leaves office early next year.
The 45-year-old narrowly gained the governor’s mansion in 2019, when he unseated Republican incumbent Matt Bevin by just over 5,000 votes out of more than 1.
