Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear looks set to pull off a big win in Letcher County, which former President Donald Trump won by nearly 60 points in 2020, as he fended off a challenge from Republican Daniel Cameron to secure a second term in office.
With more than 95 percent of the votes cast in Kentucky counted, Beshear had 53 percent of the vote to Cameron’s 47 percent, with the Associated Press calling the race for the Democratic incumbent.
Beshear’s victory looked particularly impressive in Letcher County, in the east of Kentucky, which voted for Trump by 79.1 percent of the vote versus 19.7 percent for Joe Biden in 2020. By contrast, in 2023 Beshear is leading in the county with 52 percent of the vote against 48 percent for Cameron, the Kentucky attorney general.
I think some helpful context here is that Beshear got 44.9% of the vote in this same county in the 2019 race that he narrowly won. This time he got 52.3%.
In the popular vote, Beshear received 2,626 votes in that county in 2019 and 2,205 votes this election.
He won a greater percentage but had fewer overall votes? Sounds like Republicans are disillusioned and didn’t show up to the polls.
Good.
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Don’t worry, as soon as Republicans can, they’ll be gerrymandering
The fear is they only show up for trump. And will when the time comes. I think that fear is valid. Low engagement voters either don’t mind trump, or they love trump, and they will show up in much greater numbers in the general.
Yes, that’s a totally valid concern.