While the onetime VP contender is expected to speak on reproductive rights and labor, Beshear has also taken to the national airwaves ahead of the convention to support the Harris/Walz ticket and defend recently announced policy proposals.
Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a federal ban on what she's labeled price gouging on groceries, a move conservatives critics argue amounts to price controls. Beshear pushed back on that characterization on CBS' Face the Nation.
"This has to be evidence based. Ultimately, you bring an action and you have to prove it in court so you have to have the evidence that this is beyond supply and demand that this is people taking advantage of us," the governor said.
In a post to X, the Republican Party of Kentucky called the Harris proposals "radical, far-left price control policies, which always result in shortages, hoarding, and booming black markets."
While Kentucky Democrats have said Beshear's brief stint as a possible VP candidate was good for the commonwealth's image, the governor is sounding firm that he would not be in the running for any cabinet positions in a possible Harris/Walz administration.
"I don't intend to accept any position in Washington, DC.," the governor said during his Thursday Team Kentucky briefing.
Beshear did not list a time for his speech tonight, only that he would be delivering remarks on "hope, freedom, and unity."
