All eyes may be on 2024, but 2023 is an important election year for some states, not least Kentucky. Top of the card is Gov. Andy Beshear, and whether the Democrat incumbent can win again in a typically red state, potentially launching himself into the 2028 presidential conversation. This…
All eyes may be on 2024, but 2023 is an important election year for some states, not least Kentucky. Top of the card is Gov. Andy Beshear, and whether the Democrat incumbent can win again in a typically red state, potentially launching himself into the 2028 presidential conversation. This Washington Examiner series, Democracy Derby, will take a closer look at Beshear's prospects, the make-up of the Bluegrass State as a whole, and whether Sen.
“Anyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it’s like to stand in my shoes,” she said in the statewide ad taken out by Beshear’s reelection campaign. A previous Beshear ad focusing on abortion featured a Louisville prosecutor saying Cameron thought rapists should have more rights than their victims.
During a candidates forum at which both Beshear and Cameron appeared, they were asked to say something nice about each other."I would have had a lot of nice things to say about him until he ran that ad against me today," Cameron said. The race could be the latest setback for anti-abortion forces in what is supposed to be friendly, relatively conservative territory. This includes a recent defeat on a ballot initiative in Ohio, which followed similar votes in Kansas and elsewhere. Kentucky itself rejected a measure finding no right to abortion in the state constitution last year.
“Like President Ronald Reagan before me, I support the three exceptions, for rape, incest, and the life of the mother,” Trump said earlier this year, in what has become a standard part of his 2024 stump speech. “In terms of running, you have to go with your heart; you have to go with what you want. But to me, the three exceptions are very important. I think to a large portion of people on this issue are very important.
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