“Well, I don’t know the specifics of the civil complaint, and I understand it was something that involved something 30 years ago,' Cameron said. Jean Carroll decades ago, awarding her $5 million. Hours earlier, a jury in New York found Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. The first-term attorney general has taken digs at Craft over his success in gaining Trump's nod, and the endorsement is featured on his campaign website and in TV ads promoting Cameron.īut as Trump faces a swirl of legal risks, Kentucky's chief law enforcement officer is likely to face continued questions about those cases if he emerges as the Republican nominee.Īt the outset of the debate Tuesday night, Cameron was asked about the jury verdict and how he now feels about Trump's endorsement. ambassador to Canada and the United Nations during Trump's presidency. The Republican campaign has spiraled into a bitter rivalry between Cameron and Craft, who served as U.S. The fall campaign is a test of whether Democrats - even one seemingly as popular as Beshear - can hold their own in red states. The governor has received consistently high voter approval ratings while presiding over record economic development and managing a series of tragedies, from the pandemic to tornadoes and floods.

The party's nominee is expected to challenge Beshear, who is seeking reelection to a second term and faces nominal opposition in his party’s primary. Now Republicans are trying to wrest away the Democrats' last bastion of statewide power. When Trump won the White House in 2016, Kentucky Republicans gained control of the Kentucky House - achieving a decades-long dream as they cemented their dominance in the legislature. Trump easily carried Kentucky in his first two presidential runs and his coattails were long. Trump's support for Cameron looms large in the 12-candidate GOP field.

“I'm not seeing a particularly high level of engagement really anywhere in this state.”

“There doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm or interest in this primary,” said GOP political consultant T.J. The heated tenor of the campaign may have exacerbated voter indifference, adding to the sense that the fiercest contest will come in November when the winner tries to knock off Democratic Gov. Instead, most of the talk about issues was overshadowed by a barrage of attack ads between camps supporting Cameron or Craft. With a narrow early voting window set to begin Thursday for the May 16 primary, Republican candidates campaigned all across the Bluegrass State, trying to set themselves apart in a race where the main contenders sound alike on core economic and social issues.

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