2024 Presidential Election

Attorney General Russell Coleman has announced the 12 randomly selected Kentucky counties that will undergo an inquiry following the 2024 General Election.

Kentucky Secretary of State reports few problems and expects a high voter turnout today. Michael Adams says other than a technical snag in Louisville this morning that created long wait times at the polls, early voting has helped lines move quickly today.

Kentucky’s Election Integrity Command Center is running on high gear as voters have one last chance to head to the polls for the 2024 General Elections. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman gave an update on the state’s election process thus far. He said his office received 357 complaints during early voting, either over the phone or through the online portal. Complaints on voting day hit 156 by 10:00 a.m.

The U.S. Department of Justice will be monitoring 86 jurisdictions across 27 states on Election Day for compliance with federal voting rights laws. In Kentucky, Jefferson, the state's largest county, and Kenton County in northern Kentucky will be among those observed by the DOJ. Efforts are being coordinated with the department's Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney's Offices, and the Office of Personal Management.

This week on Voting Matters Liza and Alan conduct an in-studio panel discussion on ensuring legal immigrants cast their ballots in the upcoming election. We talk with Emily Jones of the group New Americans Initiative, Isobel Taylor with Global Lex and Basel Touchan; a new American citizen who emigrated from Syria.

Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered," a “despicable human being" and a “narcissist,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Senate Republican leader that will be released this month.

Hadley Duvall, the 22-year-old Kentucky woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

Governor Andy Besher sat down with WUKY's Karyn Czar following a whirlwind few weeks after landing on the shortlist for the Vice-Presidential pick on the Democratic ticket. After the Harris campaign announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had landed the nomination, Beshear threw his support to the Harris/Walz campaign. The Governor tells WUKY, he is happy with his job leading Kentucky and plans to use the momentum gained in the national spotlight to benefit the Commonwealth.

At the heart of JD Vance's swift journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in law school, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Donald Trump for president Wednesday, a remarkable turnaround from the onetime critic who blamed the former president for “disgraceful” acts in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack but now supports his bid to return to the White House.