We are now just one week away from Kentucky's 2023 general election.

By this time next Tuesday, polls across much of the state will be closed and counting of the ballots will have begun.

While we wait to see who will lead Kentucky for the next four years, the candidates are spending the final days of the campaign crisscrossing the state.

Governor Andy Beshear began his bus tour over the weekend.

We caught up with the Democratic incumbent yesterday in London where he greeted supporters and touted the state's economic growth spurt during his time in office.

I'm grateful that you see the potential that's in front of us, and I'm grateful that you stuck with us these last four years.

That's in the last four years haven't been easy.

We've been through a pandemic tornadoes, flooding, ice storms when storms and a year ago today, we lost an amazing man and Logan Medlock.

Let's give a big round of applause to our first responders that are here.

Show them we love them.

Folks, we've come off our two best years of economic development in the history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

These last couple of years, we set our lowest annual unemployment rate, our lowest monthly unemployment rate, and our longest period of low unemployment.

We've had our three biggest budget surpluses, which means we can more than afford to give our public school educators the giant raise they deserve.

The folks up here recognize that a good job isn't Democrat or Republican, that a new bridge in red or blue, that clean drinking water is a basic human right.

And what will be transformational is when I'm the governor that brings high speed Internet access to every home and every business in Kentucky.

And I know we have people here today from all different party registrations.

And there is a place for you, not just in this campaign, but in this administration.

If you want to leave that legacy of more opportunities for our kids and for our grandkids, this is the place for you, one where we get up every single day focused on those nonpartisan issues that don't drive us to the right or the left, but move every single family forward.

We stand up for every single Kentuckian.

Meanwhile, Attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron kicked off his statewide fight for Kentucky, quote, bus tour yesterday at a stop in northeastern Kentucky and the city of Fleming's burg.

Cameron urged voters to reject Bashir's agenda on Election Day.

And Andy Beshear talks a lot about an economy that's on fire.

But you all here today know that this economy is not on fire.

In fact, it's an economy on life support.

I mean, just think about this.

In the last three years, we have seen the median household income drop by 12%, meaning that here in Kentucky over the last three years, we've seen the largest decline in median household income that this commonwealth has ever known.

I mean, this is a governor that since he has taken the oath of office, there are 22,000 fewer Kentuckians working.

Well, there are 80,000 Kentuckians that are on unemployment.

But this governor says the economy is on fire.

If you're an able bodied individual, we've got to get you back into the workforce.

Andy Beshear, not one of the failures, the great failures of his nearly four years in office has been the fact that there are 22,000 fewer Kentuckians working and we have the lowest workforce participation rate in this Commonwealth's history.

And I've talked to so many employers, so many people that own businesses that say they couldn't find the workforce.

And so if you're an able body person, again, I think most people agree that we need to get you back into the workforce.

And I'm going to be a governor that promotes that.

Andy Beshear has expanded the welfare rolls.

You need a governor who's going to get able bodied people back to work.

I've been working hard.

I don't think there's been a person working harder than myself in this governor's race.

And we've been all over the state.

We're going to continue to go all across this commonwealth to make sure that people know that they have an opportunity to reject the far left ideology that Andy Beshear has tried to push in our state, his failed record.

We can reject that as well.

That's what we're going to do on November 7th.