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
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 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.
fair? well, they couldn t because the republicans are caught in this trap. republican primary voters, not republicans generally, but activists in their party, they really hate the president, they hate, hate, hate the president, and that tea party fringe has pinned down the rest of the republicans, you see it. look, all he s trying to do is pass george w. bush s immigration plan. republicans won t support it even though it was proposed by their president. everything he touches becomes marxism, are we kidding? everyone is playing politics. paul, let me ask you of this. one point is that the president he says that he doesn t need to go to the border because he says he s not into theater. i m not interested in photo-ops, i m interested in solving a problem. you ve called on him to go to the border. i don t know why the president tell me why you
connected to this conservative government, that has become quite unpopular in the state, actually. brannon is this kind of outsider gadfly. who do you think kay hagan wants to win this primary? i think there s no doubt they would see brannon as a godsend. but it is interesting, you look at that issue about climate denial. you might expect that to be a position that s held by brannon, someone who s equated food stamps with slavery, who s said that local property taxes, he s equated them president holocaust. he s rubbed elbows with some 9/11 truthers. that s the kind of view you might expect from someone from that tea party fringe. you might expect it from heather grant, who s one of the other candidates, who believes that the second amendment extends to owning a cannon in your backyard. but tillis is supposed to be the establishment candidate, right? and so for him to be openly endorsing this position, but he has a problem. which is the fact that he also
government, that has become quite unpopular in the state, actually. brannon is this kind of outsider gadfly. who do you think kay hagan wants to win this primary? i think there s no doubt they would see brannon as a godsend. but it is interesting, you look at that issue about climate denial. you might expect that to be a position that s held by brannon, someone who s equated food stamps with slavery, who s said that local property taxes, he s equated them president holocaust. he s rubbed elbows with some 9/11 truthers. that s the kind of view you might expect from someone from that tea party fringe. you might expect it from heather grant, who s one of the other candidates, who believes that the second amendment extends to owning a cannon in your backyard. but tillis is supposed to be the establishment candidate, right? and so for him to be openly endorsing this position, but he has a problem. which is the fact that he also puts himself out there as the leader of the conservative