Andy Beshear’s success might not translate nationally. But it’s surprising nonetheless.
Nor does he do much to appease conservative voters. This year, when Kentucky Republicans passed an anti-transgender-rights bill that was, it would have been perfectly logical, in terms of electoral politics, for Beshear to sign it. It was going to become law no matter what, because Republicans here have a large enough majority to override most of Beshear’s vetoes.
include Beshear and two Republicans in blue states: Vermont’s Phil Scott and New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu.It probably helps Beshear that he is also a fairly powerless governor. Because Kentucky’s legislature is so Republican, progressive policies that might really irritate conservative voters aren’t enacted here.
“I don’t make decisions based on votes or lack of votes,” Beshear told me when I interviewed him this week. “I governed during the pandemic, and we made every decision to save lives. And if that was going to cost me my reelection, so be it.” I strongly suspect Beshear, like every other politician, does usually consider electoral politics in his policy decisions, but his low number of he-did-that-only-for-electoral-reasons moves allows him to make that comment with a straight face.
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