depends on donald trump. and what they see in one of the reddest states in the country, a state trump won by 30 points, he has no coattails for republicans. he has no coattails for bevins who really isn t just neutral. bevins tied himself to donald trump. and so bob costa had some reporting on this earlier, i think they re really looking at this in terms of how do they separate themselves. i think you might see more republicans potentially think of how do i get away from trump instead of how do i basically cover for him each and every day. and i think that could prove really important over the next few weeks with the impeachment. robert costa, the washington post reporting tonight he spent a lot of today with republican senators and that they were all watching this election in kentucky tonight very, very closely, taking that into consideration on how they approach impeachment.
is going to be, so what is it now? what do they say tomorrow? what is mitch mcconnell thinking tonight? his numbers in kentucky, his popularity is not good to put it mildly. mitch mcconnell s up for re-election next year. what does this mean for him? i was talking down to vaughn hilliard as we were just getting the nbc news call about beshear being the apparent winner and what vaughn was saying at the time that call came in was that mitch mcconnell s numbers looked basically exactly like matt bevins numbers in kentucky. every race is different, and that ffl be that ll be a presidential election year. but it can look good. i imagine the republicans will make this a personal loss for bevin. we re going to beshear headquarters right now in
roughly bebi roughly with bill kavanaugh in the lead up to the election. but i think if there is a take away is that impeachment is not necessarily the great mobilizer that republicans were hoping for among their voters. certainly it didn t seem to work in bevins favor even though he tried to weaponize it against beshear here. republicans won the secretary of state race in kentucky. so some of this has to do with the fact bevins was a historically hated governor who did really unpopular things including messing with peoples health care and beshear used that against him. he did try to bring trump in to boost turn out, it didn t work and he did try to weaponize impeachment against democrats and that too didn t work. and that have an effect where they no longer feel like impeachment can be the tool they
governor, matt bevins re-election. the president won this deep red state by a 2 to 1 margin in 2016. today s vote comes in the midst of an impeachment fight. will that have an impact? evan mcmorris santoro was up early and talked to voters in louisville. reporter: sorin norris has his work cut out for him. he s trying to persuade independent voters to cast their ballots for the democrats. in kentucky. can you teach me the official door knocker knock? it s like a that s how you do it? you want to be very firm and loud so they come to the door. but if you just do the straight loud, it sounds like a police knocking on the door. that s why we do that. so shave and a haircut, not a cop. reporter: it s one of two governors races taking place today in addition to the high-profile battle for control over virginia s state legislature. the motion to reconsider is
laid upon the table. reporter: but this contest might be the first real look at how the politics of impeachment are playing out on the ground. the race could be decided by swing voters in working class suburbs like this one in louisville. republican incumbent matt bevin is about as closely tied to president trump as any politician in america. sorin is a professional organizer for the political arm of the afl-cio. he s trying to find votes for the democrat andy beshear. president trump won this state by nearly 30 points in 2016. he is still very popular here, which is why governor bevin was happy to host him at a rally monday night. how do you like having president trump here? sorin has been on the ground for 11 weeks pounding the pavement. beshear s supporters want to focus on health care and education. i would like to see legalized