The Trumpiest Governor in the Country Is Tied for Reelection in Kentucky

[KelleyKramer]

The Trumpiest Governor in the Country Is Tied for Reelection in Kentucky

Matt Bevin is in a tossup a few weeks before Election Day


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-tied-poll-andy-beshear-donald-trump/

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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has spent the past four years acting like a mini Donald Trump, a politician prone to social media outbursts belittling his ideological opponents in the most bombastic fashion. And just a few weeks out from Election Day, it’s a toss up among voters on whether Bevin deserves a second term.

A new poll from Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy found that voters were evenly between Bevin and his Democratic opponent, current Attorney General Andy Beshear. As the Courier-Journal points out, the poll actually represented a slight improvement for Bevin; his approval among state voters has increased to 45 percent, up from 38 percent when Mason-Dixon last looked at the race in December. (Morning Consult, another polling company, has consistently found that Bevin is the least popular governor in the country.)

As I wrote in our September/October issue, Bevin’s reelection should, in theory, be a cinch. He’s running in a deep-red state where Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 30 percent; Republicans hold both US Senate seats, and Democrats represent just one of the state’s six House districts. And Bevin has done everything to cozy up to Trump, with the president returning that love with a re-endorsement tweet on Tuesday.

But Kentucky voters don’t seem to appreciate having a Trump-style governor. As Al Cross, a longtime political reporter in the state, put it to me, “Many Kentuckians see their governor as the personification of the state. And this is a state that often comes in for ridicule. Socioeconomically and demographically, culturally we get looked down on by people on the coast. And often get made fun of. And Kentuckians are sensitive to that. They don’t want their governor to be a jerk. I famously called Matt Bevin an arrogant jerk when he was running in 2015. He is still arrogant from time to time, and he’s still a jerk from time to time. And if it wasn’t for that, he’d be a heavy favorite for reelection.”

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-tied-poll-andy-beshear-donald-trump/


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[dem4decades]

1. If a Trump loving jerk can get reelected in Kentucky, i guess Mitch is safe .

[NCLefty]

2. I tried to convince a friend from KY to vote and vote blue but he can't be bothered to even register

or get a driver's license. He's kind of poor, actually... the exact people who should be voting. :/

[Meadowoak]

3. Bevin made a lot of enemies last year with his teacher/state worker

Pension reform. I think he will get his ass handed to him on Nov. 5.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. >help<

You don't want this parasite spreading into your state. Excise it now.

[Lexblues]

5. Bevin is under 50% for an incumbent

which is danger territory as most late breakers typically vote for the challenger. Beshear has been hammering Bevin in TV ads.

[get the red out]

6. Bevin is running on anti-abortion

He had screwed so many people over in this state he is betting on people hold their noses and vote for him out of fear of going to hell. People in Louisville and Lexington need to hit the polls hard for Beshear to win. Bevin is even a carpetbagger, in a state where people really cherish their roots i bet he’s never had Burgoo in his life, and probably couldn’t even tell you when and why UK and U of L started hating each other.

[rampartc]

7. the "trumpiest governor" may soon be eddie rispone in louisiana

his run off with john bel Edwards (next month) will be very close. we really can't afford this.

[Norbert]

8. He must have a very large war chest.

He has been flooding the Northern Kentucky air waves with commercials. He is wrapping his reelection areound being the orange shitgibbon's BFF. As unpopular as he is and what a top notch candidate Andy Beshear is, if Bevin is able to pull this off I don't see how we can beat the GOT(rump)P(utin) machine for a generation.

[LonePirate]

9. The media needs to mention the profoundly racist, stupid and angry white people supporting this.

Those people, specifically their votes, are the reason this country is so fucked up now.

[Norbert]

10. I had to laugh this morning

The latest Bevin commercial has the nerve to link Andy Bashear with the war on coal.

Really. What has Bevin, rump and Moscow Mitch done for coal miners since this so-call war on coal started.

These ass holes have no shame.

[standingtall]

11. Good reasons to be optimistic here

If that poll is correct looking at the internals the biggest portion of that 7% undecided are either from the Louisville Metro area,Women and people under 50 all groups that would seem to favor Beshear.