Kentucky's Democratic governor is touring the country, releasing a book, and road-testing presidential talking points, all while insisting he hasn't decided whether to run in 2028. Andy Beshear showed up at the Kentucky Distillers' Association meeting in Louisville last week with a familiar complaint about tariffs and a less familiar pitch: that Democrats need to […] The post Andy Beshear pitches a Democratic makeover — and himself — in new memoir and 2028 trial run appeared first on American Almanac .
Kentucky's Democratic governor is touring the country, releasing a book, and road-testing presidential talking points, all while insisting he hasn't decided whether to run in 2028. Andy Beshear showed up at the Kentucky Distillers' Association meeting in Louisville last week with a familiar complaint about tariffs and a less familiar pitch: that Democrats need to stop talking like activists and start talking like neighbors. The two-term governor, who also chairs the Democratic Governors' Association, used the industry gathering to press the Trump administration on trade policy while floating a broader vision he calls "The Great American Reset", a concept that doubles as the thesis of his forthcoming memoir. The book, Go and Do Likewise:…Open
Once again, that thing that the political left tells us seldom happens seems to have happened again. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced charges filed for illegal voting by 16 people spread across several states. 16 people may not seem like a lot, but one has to ask: What is the acceptable number of illegal voters?
Christine Walker, an election clerk in Jackson County, Oregon says election officials need to follow state laws amid growing concerns about possible interference by the Trump administration. She says “elections are bigger than us as individuals this is about our country.”
Members of the Trump administration have been spending a good amount of time and resources in states that have historically leaned Republican. Our panel discusses the significance of that ahead of the midterms.
It sounds like the start of an only-in-D.C. joke: - Three Republican power players walk into a bar for a freewheeling conversation. They unwittingly sit next to a liberal comic. She then skewers them in an Instagram post recounting their chat. Why it matters: It became no laughing matter for one of the Republicans —oilman Harry Sargeant — who's trying to improve his uneasy relations with the Trump administration, partly related to his business dealings in Venezuela. - His rapprochement efforts were complicated last month when senior administration officials became aware of the comic's social media post, in which she alleged that Sargeant spoke negatively about President Trump. The big picture: The story illustrates the panopticon of…
Outspent and lacking a big profile, Gina Hinojosa has made the Texas governor race unexpectedly competitive. The post Can Hinojosa Win Texas? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Can Hinojosa Win Texas? Outspent and lacking a big profile, Gina Hinojosa has made the Texas governor race unexpectedly competitive. (Katina Zentz/San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images) Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) couldn’t believe what he was about to do. Less than three months out from the midterms, Kennedy was leaving for a trip to Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. States that, as the Louisiana senator colorfully put it, “ought to be fat-guy layups for us.” His travel was a response to a very real and deeply uncomfortable situation facing the Republican Party: the looming prospect of electoral…Open
California Governor Gavin Newsom is a performative popinjay like no other, and on Saturday he decided to preen and fluff his feathers over his signing of 13 purported "election integrity," bills into law. One of those new laws would make it a felony to seize or interfere with the chain of custody of ballots before they are certified. This is in direct opposition to the Trump administration deploying election observers to the polls in certain states for the November midterms, and forcing the purging of illegal aliens from state voter rolls. Purges that are, of course, being resisted by Newsom and other blue state governors.
