Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, is projected to win reelection to a second term in office Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general, according to the NBC News Decision Desk.
Beshear, 45, led the Trump-backed Cameron, 37, for most the campaign, but late polling showed the candidates in a dead heat.
Beshear is broadly popular with voters, with a 60% approval rating, despite governing as a Democrat in a socially conservative state where voters overwhelmingly backed former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Besides Louisville and Lexington, the two biggest cities in Kentucky, every single county voted majority Republican. Kentucky still has a very long way to go.
Edit: well, at the time I posted this the results clearly showed only two counties that went blue. Now that I’ve checked all my negative down votes and all these comments, I see now that with more results in this is clearly not the case. Sorry folks.
I still stand by my statement, not enough blue counties!