2019 KY GOV Megathread, Andy Beshear wins

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Why is it that of the two governors Kentucky has had since the early 1970s that were Republicans (Ernie Fletcher and now Matt Bevin), they were both so horrible that even Republican voters could only barely stomach them?  Was their statewide bench so sparse that they simply were unable to field better-quality candidates?  

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https://twitter.com/gelles/status/1192165518494568449

It doesn't seem his fellow Republicans are all that eager to rally around him:

Republicans urge Bevin to provide proof of election fraud or concede

Their message to him is basically: Put up, or shut up.

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This is an embarrassing result for Trump, but hardly disastrous for the Kentucky Republican Party.  Given that the GOP has won all other statewide races, they are in a prime position to build up a stronger bench for future gubernatorial races (and avoiding having to nominate candidates like Ernie Fletcher and Matt Bevin ever again). 

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https://twitter.com/917wvxu/status/1196534798396903427

That's a pathetic excuse. The fact that most voters in Kentucky are either former Democrats and/or ancestral Democrats (I presume that was what he meant) means virtually nothing when 9 times out of 10 they vote Republican.