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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(122,600 posts)
Thu May 8, 2025, 05:28 PM 17 hrs ago

Andy Beshear is making serious moves toward a 2028 presidential run

PERRY COUNTY, Kentucky — Andy Beshear isn’t just saying he “would consider” running for president. He’s actively laying the tracks for a potential 2028 campaign.

He’s 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 he’s 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 he’s 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.

“He’s the kind of guy that is either going to bump along at two percent and never catch fire, or he’ll catch fire and you’ll say, ‘Where did this guy come from?’” said Pete Giangreco, a veteran of several Democratic presidential campaigns. “He’s a former attorney general, he talks about ‘all God’s children,’ and you believe him, he’s the exact opposite of Donald Trump, so he’s an intriguing dark horse for a reason.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/andy-beshear-laying-groundwork-2028-095500793.html

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Andy Beshear is making serious moves toward a 2028 presidential run (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 17 hrs ago OP
I'd vote for him! 👍🏻 CaliforniaPeggy 17 hrs ago #1
Let's get this party started! senseandsensibility 17 hrs ago #2
Southern Democratic governors win the White House question everything 16 hrs ago #3
Andy is my number one pick for our candidate and for president. Big Blue Marble 15 hrs ago #4
NICE !! Where's he.policy wise? Don't see running a "not Trump" working to bring out non voters uponit7771 15 hrs ago #5

Big Blue Marble

(5,602 posts)
4. Andy is my number one pick for our candidate and for president.
Thu May 8, 2025, 07:12 PM
15 hrs ago

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.

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