https://www.apnews.com/225c52937e4d488ebecf04f0a72b192e
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andy Beshear has won an endorsement from the Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police.
Beshear has stressed his record as attorney general in his campaign against Republican Gov. Matt Bevin. Beshear says he has worked with law enforcement on his top goals.
Beshear points to his efforts to prosecute child sex offenders, clear the rape kit backlog, combat human trafficking, stop senior scams and battle the drug epidemic.
The Democratic challenger says he’s committed to fully funding pensions for law enforcement officials, and says he’ll fight for policies to keep communities safe.
Bevin’s campaign says the governor’s support for law enforcement has included protecting funding for training and pushing for better pay for officers.
In reviewing candidates, FOP official Drew Fox says conversations focused on pensions, benefits and officers’ safety.
Note that Democrats rarely win endorsements from police unions and that the national Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump in 2016.
This won't make any difference. Beshear is still well on his way to defeat in November. Does anyone really think that Kentucky voters will care about this endorsement?
I don't know how many will care about this specific endorsement per se, but it's just one of many factors stacked against Bevin: Basically everyone employed by the state (which is a decent chunk of the workforce here) hates his guts, especially teachers and now even cops, Beshear has been endorsed by a number of defecting Republican state legislators and local officials/mayors, and Bevin is literally the most unpopular governor in the country who barely limped to victory in his own primary a couple months ago against a couple random unknowns. Also multiple polls have shown him down, by as much as 15 points.
Anyone who is living in this state or informed about the situation knows almost every imaginable political force here is strongly against Bevin -- there is really no reason to think he's going to win other than "Lol Kentucky solid R, ignorant hicks, lol" which is... not a "reason," to say the least. Of the many flaws of that "reasoning," perhaps the most obvious is that states that were just as strongly Trump or more in 2016 such as Montana, Alabama, and West Virginia have voted for Democrats at the statewide level since then (even with Trump endorsing their opponents!), and Kentucky has even more of a history of bucking its national trends in state elections than most other states -- Andy Beshear is the son of a popular former governor who won re-election by a landslide in the long ago time of... 2011, and Andy himself literally won statewide office as AG on the exact same day Bevin first won in 2015, an abysmal year for Democratic turnout.
But, you know, I'm sure all these Atlas smugposters who have never stepped foot in Kentucky (I'm assuming you haven't?) and know basically nothing about it are the REAL experts here.
