Andy Beshear and Daniel Cameron are each, in their own ways, good bets for a national ticket someday. But only one will be chosen governor this week.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, left, and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron participate in a gubernatorial debate at Northern Kentucky University, in Highland Heights, Ky., on Oct. 16, 2023. | Joe Simon/LINK nky via APJonathan Martin is POLITICO’s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief. He’s covered elections in every corner of America and co-authored a best-selling book about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Beshear is the favorite at the betting window. He has defied his state’s sharp turn right to emerge as the frontrunner by exuding competence in the face of Covid and a series of almost biblical natural disasters whose impact has tested the state like nothing else this side of the University of Kentucky Wildcats’ nearly-decade-long drought from the Final Four.
If Beshear sounds disciplined, on-message and focused entirely on his state, well, you’re onto something. What Beshear does not want to discuss are his ambitions. Yet when I pressed him this summer about his interest in being on a ticket, he notably did not deny the possibility he could wind up on the national ticket. That could easily happen if a woman or candidate of color sees a white-male governor as a logical partner given the party’s struggles with white men.
She was no help – but also didn’t offer anything close to a hell no. “I am interested in helping Andy,” said Kentucky’s first lady. In 2019, he beat a GOP governor, Matt Bevin, who managed to make himself that rare incumbent governor susceptible to defeat.
Should he ride late momentum to victory, though, Cameron will become one of the most prominent African-American Republicans in America.
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