not just about president trump. he s an unpopular president and has an unpopular agenda. bevin picked fights with teachers but his number one area of unpopularity was medicaid. nationwide republicans have taken 1.3 million people off medica medicaid. if kentucky didn t like it, i don t think the rest of the country is going to like it either. did donald trump put himself on the ballot in kentucky? they put impeachment on the ballot in kentucky because they believed it would help turn out the pro-trump, andy impeachment vote. didn t work. it was a poor bet, lawrence, as it appears by a few tenths of a percentage point there. this is not evidence that donald trump won, it s not evidence
trump won by 22, beshear won by 19. here s another one, trump won by 41 points in 2016. bevin couldn t even carry it tonight. it s an interesting phenomenon here where you can call it ancestrally democratic. they ve kept their democratic registration in a lot of cases but they started voting for republicans on the national level, they certainly voted for donald trump. boy, did they go back to beshear and the democrats tonight. vaughn hilliard one of the theories out there is one of the reasons you heard beshear mention this in his speech, his father steve beshear, the former governor he did very well in those areas, and it might have been in part, the beshear family name might have reassured some of these voters and brought them back into the democratic fold. trump had that speech, trump coming into kentucky. these were exactly the kind of places he thought he was going to fire up. bevin needed to do better in
everything the democrats had to pull this off. that s absolutely true. they did get a break in the summer when the courts ordered a redrawing of a few districts in the house of delegates. and it favored democrats substantially. so they got a break there. they actually might have won the house of delegates even without those breaks. but in the future, given the fact that democrats will redraw the lines in 2021, i think you can look to the democratic margin increasing. and larry, a quick word about what we re seeing in kentucky tonight. the president went down last night, he nationalized the race, he put himself on the ballot in kentucky. he put impaechment on the ballot in kentucky, the republican advertising campaign put donald trump and put impeachment on the ballot in the kentucky governor s race, and it was a very bad night for republicans. it sure was. yeah, it s true they won everything below governor. but governor matters more than
but there s a possibility he s going to seek that, there s a possibility the judge is going to give him that. but, steve, in terms of vote count tonight what more are we going to see? in kentucky i think that s what you just saw there, it was a thing the associated press has been doing a running count of this and we ve been doing a running count, that s the little change there you just saw, but as i said every presipcinct in s state is accounted for. the recount would have to turn up something we are not seeing in these results. there s not going to be anymore p precincts that come in kentucky that would put bevin ahead. steve, put this democratic gain in kentucky here you see a democratic candidate statewide running for governor the day after donald trump went down there and said this election is about impeachment, actually
northern and central kentucky. it means being a governor for every democrat, every republican, and every independe independent, ever single kentuc kentuckien. to those watching, if i did not earn your vote today, rest assured i will work hard to earn your trust. and even more importantly i will always strive to do the right thing. because i didn t run for this office just to be governor, i ran for this office because i want to govern well. as your next governor i will listen more than i talk. i will work with anyone who has a good idea that we can deliver