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PERRY COUNTY, Kentucky Andy Beshear isnt just saying he would consider running for president. Hes actively laying the tracks for a potential 2028 campaign.
Hes meeting privately with donors, recording a podcast and regularly popping up at national events. A former Kamala Harris communications staffer is consulting for him, and hes speaking at the Future Forward donor summit this weekend in California. Conservative activist Charlie Kirk hasname-checked him as among the toughest Democrats to beat.
The selling point for Beshear, the popular, two-term governor of Kentucky, is his proven ability to win in Trump country while still running as an unapologetic Democrat. But hes also done that by flying under the national radar, leaving him in a relative obscurity that he must now overcome. The challenge is translating what he calls his reasonable and common sense Kentucky story into a national Democratic primary campaign, and testing whether his low-key personality can excite major Democratic donors and primary voters and break through a fragmented media environment.
Hes the kind of guy that is either going to bump along at two percent and never catch fire, or hell catch fire and youll say, Where did this guy come from? said Pete Giangreco, a veteran of several Democratic presidential campaigns. Hes a former attorney general, he talks about all Gods children, and you believe him, hes the exact opposite of Donald Trump, so hes an intriguing dark horse for a reason.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/andy-beshear-laying-groundwork-2028-095500793.html

CaliforniaPeggy
(153,728 posts)senseandsensibility
(21,948 posts)The more the merrier!
question everything
(50,180 posts)Big Blue Marble
(5,602 posts)He is a very smart and very kind person who does care about everyone. He is as genuine, honest,
and straight forward as a politician as I have ever experienced. He will be the perfect antidote
to Trump and his illegal, corrupt, and incompetent administration.
I am so glad to read that he is going all in.