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Daniel Cameron wins the GOP nomination for Kentucky governor, defeating Kelly Craft and Ryan Quarles. Despite Craft's heavy spending and attempts to paint Cameron as "too woke," Cameron's emphasis on his work as Kentucky attorney general proved successful. Cameron will face a tough race in the general election, as the state leans Democrat.
The Republican primary in Kentucky to decide who will challenge Democratic Governor Andy Beshear in November is heating up, with three candidates vying for the nomination. Former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and state Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles are the front-runners, but polling indicates no clear leader. Each candidate has emphasized their connection to rural Kentuckians and farmers, as well as their plans to address issues such as the fentanyl crisis and education reform. The winner will likely face Beshear in the general election on November 7.
The Republican primary for Kentucky's gubernatorial race has become a heated battle between two pillars of the state's party apparatus, Daniel Cameron and Kelly Craft, with a third candidate, Ryan Quarles, acting as a wild card. The race has become the most closely watched statewide election remaining this year, with Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, being difficult to beat in November. The divisions fall short of the infighting between far-right and establishment candidates that consumed Michigan and Pennsylvania Republicans last year.
Republican mega-donor Kelly Craft is spending millions in an increasingly bitter primary to win the Kentucky governorship, laying waste to the Republican frontrunner, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, in a series of ads. The spending by Craft has upended GOP politics in Kentucky, rocketing someone who was almost entirely unknown in the commonwealth outside of major donor circles to the top tier of the primary heap. However, the brutal primary between the two could also come at a cost, giving an already popular Democratic incumbent an opening to peel off at least a sliver of Republican voters turned off by the in-fighting.