[chanting] kentucky s rate has reached the lowest point in the history of our country. [cheers and applause] and i just want to tell you you have incredible representatives and the job that matt has done as governor. he will do some things that you had to do. and he s done them all unbelievably well and set you up to be a rocket ship in the future. you had to do it. so i just want to thank you for having the courage to do what you had to do. you have the best numbers you have ever had in the history of the state. and with the help of your senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, we have
in lexington, kentucky. president trump: the republican governor matt, he s done a fantastic job. [cheers and applause] he s done a fantastic job. and we are sending a signal by doing that to the rest of the country, to the rest of the world. don t make that the republican party, you know what we stand for it. but you see what is happening with the democrats. they have gone crazy. the do-nothing democrats. and they are not getting it done under republican leadership. the economy is booming, ways wages are rising. kentucky is thriving like never, ever before, and america is stronger than ever before. [cheers and applause]
bevin is working to get resources for kentucky. president trump: isn t that really what you want in a governor? [cheering] that s what you want. he is such a pain in the ass but that s what you want. the democrat is the attorney general and son of the previous governor. he declares bevin is too nasty and doesn t deserve a second term. no governor should behave that way befrin has. we expect a governor to use the bully pulpit not as a bully but to bring us together. bevin is outspoken and trumpian before trump himself. it s in part why this is shaping up as a proxy for all things political nationwide, bill.
governor matt bevin and all these great republicans. four years ago at this time the night before the election the same polls showed that i was down by 5%. i ended up winning by 9%. the polls don t work well here. if they show that we are even right now, that bo eds very well for us. bill: mike tobacco the coverage live in kentucky with more. good morning. the poll that counts is underway on a rainy morning here in kentucky. election shaping up as a bellwether for the president s popularity. matt bevin cast his ballots in louisville this morning. the poll he was talking about was taken mid occiputing him neck-and-neck with his challenger. the president showed up attempting to make a difference selling bevin to a packed arena. his selling point was because
pundits on the basis of bold-faced lies. i was accused of aiding and a betting the very man i ve singled out as an adversary and opposed for 20 years, vladimir putin. why so mad, mitch? morning joe wasn t even the first to coin the phrase moscow mitch. that honor goes to murray ward from kentucky in a local paper called the murray ledger and times on april 24. ward wrote that moscow mitch is benefiting from his direct and indirect ties to putin and russian oligarchs which guided his vote to lift russian sanctions in january 2019. now, he was referring to mcconnell and kentucky republican governor matt bevins relationship with brady industries, a kentucky mill, that he said had state funding