KY-GOV GOP Primary (Emerson): Cameron leads by 6

[wbrocks67]

https://twitter.com/EmersonPolling/status/1646649863927476226

[Sir Mohamed]

Interesting, I thought Cameron was a shoe-in for the GOP nomination.

[Alben Barkley]

Interesting, I thought Cameron was a shoe-in for the GOP nomination.

Reminder that he is a black man heavily associated with Mitch McConnell running for the Kentucky Republican nomination.

As much as he has working for him, he has working against him.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

I thought Cameron wanted to be McConnell successor, no?

[Vosem]

Interesting, I thought Cameron was a shoe-in for the GOP nomination.

Reminder that he is a black man heavily associated with Mitch McConnell running for the Kentucky Republican nomination.

As much as he has working for him, he has working against him.

You're on the ground in KY -- is it true that Craft is outspending the field really hard? My understanding is that if she can maintain her current rates of gaining support she probably wins the nomination.

(Of course, Craft has been a close ally of McConnell for decades and became US Ambassador to UN basically as a kind of thank-you. So her beating Cameron wouldn't really be any sort of defeat for McConnell.)

I thought Cameron wanted to be McConnell successor, no?

So many "McConnell successors" at this point have crashed and burned -- there were big McConnell retirement rumors in 2008/2014/2020, and completely different rumored fields every time -- that you'd have to be foolish to see yourself this way. McConnell will actually still be a Senator 10 years after all of us are dead.

[2016]

Kelly Craft winning would be a blow to Donald Trump who endorsed Daniel Cameron!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Interesting, I thought Cameron was a shoe-in for the GOP nomination.

Reminder that he is a black man heavily associated with Mitch McConnell running for the Kentucky Republican nomination.

As much as he has working for him, he has working against him.

You're on the ground in KY -- is it true that Craft is outspending the field really hard? My understanding is that if she can maintain her current rates of gaining support she probably wins the nomination.

(Of course, Craft has been a close ally of McConnell for decades and became US Ambassador to UN basically as a kind of thank-you. So her beating Cameron wouldn't really be any sort of defeat for McConnell.)

I thought Cameron wanted to be McConnell successor, no?

So many "McConnell successors" at this point have crashed and burned -- there were big McConnell retirement rumors in 2008/2014/2020, and completely different rumored fields every time -- that you'd have to be foolish to see yourself this way. McConnell will actually still be a Senator 10 years after all of us are dead.

I didn't know until seeing this post that Craft was so McConnell-aligned, but I did hear of Cameron being groomed to succeed McConnell. I'm curious to see if that's how he's perceived in the state, though. Maybe McConnell plans to die in office, but I'm not aware of anyone else who claimed that mantle and faded. McConnell couldn't keep Rand out of the Senate, and though they've since reconciled he's still an unpopular senator who makes neither side happy but still a shoe-in each time due to the fact that he's an institution who brings home lots of pork.