not at all nervous. there have just been, speaking of the south, there have just been two big governor s races in the south this week. in mississippi, the mississippi democratic party essentially did not get it together to run a major candidate for governor this year. so mississippi s republican governor phil bryant basically got to run unopposed. he did very well. the other governor s race in the south this week was very, very contested. that was democratic attorney general jack conway losing the kentucky governor s race to republican tea party businessman guy matt bevin. now, kentucky democrats, democrats across the country, really thought jack conway was going to win that race, both because they thought matt bevin was a very beatable fairly eccentric, fairly polarizing guy but also because the polling just told them that very clearly in fact democrat jack conway was going to win that race.
in mississippi, the mississippi democratic party essentially did not get it together to run a major candidate for governor this year. so mississippi s republican governor phil bryant basically got to run unopposed. he did very well. the other governor s race in the south this week was very, very contested. that was democratic attorney general jack conway losing the kentucky governor s race to republican tea party businessman guy matt bevin. now, kentucky democrats, democrats across the country, really thought jack conway was going to win that race, both because they thought matt bevin was a very beatable fairly eccentric, fairly polarizing guy but also because the polling just told them that very clearly in fact democrat jack conway was going to win that race. he definitely lost that race and by a lot. and today in today s news, one very specific chicken came home to roost on that story. the lexington herald leader newspaper today in kentucky
pick. well, the democratic governors association put out this statement after bevin s win. attorney general jack conway ran into the unexpected headwinds of trump mania. this is the democrats talking. losing to an outsider candidate in the year of the outsider. well, here s bevin speaking about his victory last night. this will change the tenor of what happens in the 2016 race. it truly will. this is going to change the tenor of the state just as it changed the tenor of this election and the way we executed this campaign. i truly think we as a state have the ability to change the tenor of what politics looks like, what representation looks like, what a seat at the table means, what it will mean when kentucky shines like the beacon that it will be. i m grateful to you. i m thankful to you. god bless you and may god bless the commonwealth of kentucky. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] here s the democrat jack conway s concession speech. and i love concession speeches. folks, tonig
don t want to necessarily admit they re going outside the system but they re going to do it. i remember obama beating the spread. the other thing is a lot of these polls are taken by media organizations and in ken cannot another thing that matt bevin did was basically cut off the entire state media, cut off the courier journal the biggest paper in the state, cut oft lexington no interviews. totally at war with the media. which is another big theme of this year coming up. every republican event you go to you attack the media and it s huge in response. and that s because the media also is viewed as don t believe the polls. anyway, bevin embraced his similarities to trump. in a recent campaign event he said, i have no favors to pay back. there s not one person in this state who believes they re going to have a job in my administration. there s not one person who i ve promised anything to. donald trump is an interesting fellow. part would ve what people appreciate about him
been reborn in the mold of donald trump and is a very convincing winner. what was the fringe just a year ago is now very, very electable in the republican party. last year matt bevin, a tea party red hot millionaire with no political experience, got crushed by senator mitch mcconnell in the kentucky senate primary race. they dismissed bevin as an east coast con man with delusions of grandeur. they said he was part of the tea party fringe. they ridiculed his appearance at a pro-cock fighting rally. yes, cock fighting. yesterday that fringe candidate won the kentucky governor s race in a surprise landslide defeating the state s democratic attorney general jack conway by nine points. bevin will become just the third republican governor in kentucky since 1947. bevin ran as an outsider. he touted his business record and his wealth. he was spotted last week traveling the state in a gold cadillac escalade. he shunned reporters for unflattering coverage. he was not the establishment