Matt Bevin (R) conceded the Kentucky gubernatorial race to Andy Beshear (D). You may opt-out by, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change.
[13], Beshear declared victory after the initial vote count,[14] selecting J. Michael Brown to lead his transition team. [10] He became the first Republican attorney general of Kentucky since 1948,[11] and the state's first black attorney general.[12]. [16], Poll sponsored by Democratic Attorney General Association, Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, "Here's Who's Running For Kentucky Governor And Other Offices", "Kentucky gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2019", "Watch live: Democrat Andy Beshear speaks after declaring victory in Kentucky election", "Gov. Unusually high turnout was seen as a major factor in Beshear's win. [15] Bevin refused to concede and requested a recanvassing of the vote, which took place on November 14.
[3], With the recanvass producing no change in his vote total, Bevin conceded the race on November 14. Live results: Kentucky General Election 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wkKhQst1Cw, "Sarah Huckabee Sanders, US congressman stump for Gov.
Bevin’s Trump-like attacks on teachers and the rollback of Medicaid meant the Kentucky governor had a. ", "Grateful to @DonaldJTrumpJr & @kimguilfoyle for the generosity of their time today as we celebrated all the great progress we are making in KYMcCreary, Perry, Pike and Kenton countiesMore crowds & more money raised today than our opponent will see this monthpic.twitter.com/kgZXqCUtP8", "If you want to defeat the radical left and #KeepAmericaGreat, then GET OUT AND VOTE today!
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View the real-time election results and news coverage on CNN.com. The former would be more favorable for Democrats, the latter for Republicans. Previously I was a news reporter for HuffPost UK, the Press Association and a night. The day before the election, Trump tried to boost the Bevin campaign with a rally in Lexington in which he warned that a loss for Bevin would strengthen the House Democrats’ plan to impeach him for pressuring Ukraine’s leader to investigate Joe Biden’s son. Elections; 2020-2029 . Bevin is only the second Republican governor of Kentucky in the last 50 years. Bevin Officially Requests Recanvass Of Election Results", "Voter turnout tops 41 percent in tight race for Kentucky governor", "President Trump endorses Daniel Cameron in Kentucky attorney general race", "Trump endorses Cameron for attorney general", "Democrat Drew Curtis withdraws from auditor's race", "Appellate judge announces run for Supreme Court seat", http://apps.sos.ky.gov/elections/candidatefilings/statewide/default.aspx?cand=7726, https://www.wkms.org/post/nickell-elected-kentucky-supreme-court#stream/0, https://ballotpedia.org/Kentucky_intermediate_appellate_court_elections,_2019, Heather French Henry (D) for Secretary of State, Robert Haley Conway (D) for Ag Commissioner, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2019_Kentucky_elections&oldid=974997292, November 2019 events in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Jason Belcher, U.S. Air Force veteran and writer, Andrew English, former general counsel for the, Stephen Knipper, cyber security expert, former, Carl Nett, former counterintelligence officer, Josh Mers, insurance agent and treasurer for the Lexington Human Rights Commission, Bill Polyniak, farmer and hemp businessman, Robert Haley Conway, district supervisor of the, This page was last edited on 26 August 2020, at 04:02.
#kygov", "Former Supreme Court Justice Endorses Andy Beshear", "We look forward to doing our part to support @AndyBeshearKY and a unified @KyDems as we must defeat Matt Bevin in the fall. © 2020 Commonwealth of Kentucky.All rights reserved. Election updates. Incumbent Republican Governor Matt Bevin was renominated by the Republican Party, and Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear won the Democratic nomination. For a review to take place, Bevin would need to formally request one from the secretary of state or the county board of elections would have to find a discrepancy in the process, according to USA Today. This was the only statewide race in Kentucky in 2019 besides the gubernatorial election in which the Democratic candidate came close to winning and the only non-gubernatorial statewide election in KY, LA or MS where the Democrat achieved more than 45% of the vote in 2019. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.
Governor Tate Reeves campaigned against the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and defeated Democrat Jim Hood with a 52.3% vote share, after trailing earlier in the polls.