2023 Kentucky Governor's race

In this special post-election edition of WUKY's Capitol Chat, Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock gives her take on Governor Beshear's electoral victory in the face of near total Republican dominance of Kentucky politics.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has won reelection to a second term in Kentucky. Beshear secured another significant statewide victory Tuesday in an increasingly red state. It could serve as a model for other Democrats on how to thrive politically heading into next year’s presidential election. Beshear defeated Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Beshear stressed his stewardship over record economic growth and his handling of multiple disasters, from tornadoes and floods to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beshear repeatedly hammered Cameron for his support of the state’s sweeping abortion ban, which makes no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.

The final debate gubernatorial debate between Daniel Cameron and Andy Beshear took place Tuesday night. It was hosted by the League of Women Voters and WKYT TV in Lexington. 5 times these candidates faced each other on a stage or in a TV studio so we asked Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock which candidate benefited most from the forums?

If you subscribe to the notion that money is the mother’s milk of politics then you’ll be interested to know who has more 'nourishment' on hand going into the final weeks of the 2023 governor’s race. The Beshear and Cameron campaigns filed their most recent fundraising reports last week with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance. We go behind the numbers with Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock.

Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron tried pushing national politics to the forefront of the governor's race in GOP-trending Kentucky, while Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear played up the state's record-setting economic growth under his leadership as the rivals squared off at a forum Thursday.

The deadline to register to vote in the November election here in Kentucky has now passed so the voter roles are essentially locked in. There are more registered Republicans than Democrats in the commonwealth and as noted before about 10% of the electorate identifies as other or independent. That makes predicting the outcome of the 2023 gubernatorial contest tricky. This week on Capitol Chat we take a closer look at the electoral map for both Democrat incumbent Andy Beshear and GOP challenger Daniel Cameron with Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette.

Kentucky’s gubernatorial election is now just about a month away as Democrat incumbent Andy Beshear is trying to hold off Republican challenger and current state Attorney General Daniel Cameron. If you consume just about any media on a daily basis you’ve been exposed to what seems like hundreds of messages everyday for the last few months. The question we are putting to Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette: are those ads moving the needle either way?

While Republican Daniel Cameron has downplayed his support for charter schools and vouchers in presenting his education plans, school choice advocacy groups have pumped millions of dollars into ads attacking his opponent, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear proposed awarding the largest pay raise in decades to Kentucky's public school personnel, upping the ante Wednesday in his competition with Republican challenger Daniel Cameron, who offered his own plan to boost salaries and overcome pandemic learning setbacks.

Republican Daniel Cameron's bid for governor won support from Kentucky's largest police union on Tuesday, providing a boost for the current attorney general who led an investigation that yielded no charges against any officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor during a botched police raid.