Thanks, Laura.

Time now to go inside Kentucky politics.

Good day to you.

I'm Renee Shaw.

And we have our favorites with us today as we come up just a few days before the Election Day.

But we know some folks are already taking advantage of early voting in Kentucky.

We have with us Bob Babbage, founder of Babbage co-founder.

And we know he was the intern to Bob Babbage, Trey Grayson with Ross Brown, and Todd, also former Kentucky secretary of state.

Good to see you both.

See you will have you on Tuesday night as well for our primary election coverage.

That begins at 8:00 Eastern.

We hope people will tune in.

Terry, I want to go to you since you're joining us remotely.

Let's focus in on some of these key state House races, some that we've already talked about throughout the week.

On Kentucky Edition, the Lexington race with Jillian Timothy, the Boone County area Race with Sid Massey and T.J. Roberts.

And we've talked about the Attica Scott Gerald Neal race for the Senate District three.

But there's a few others that you think we should keep our eyes on.

There are a couple of committee chairs in addition to Chairman Meredith that have some primaries that are getting a lot of attention.

And something we'll I'm sure I'll talk about on Tuesday.

So one is Agriculture Commissioner Richard.

He's down in Graves County in a little bit of a crack in County.

He's got a very spirited challenge and a lot of folks thinks he could have a very tough race.

Tim Mosher, who's the health com and then the in Boone County, you mentioned the Massey race, but there's also a couple other primaries.

Marion Proctor, who beat Sal Santora two years ago.

There's a big effort to try to unseat her after one term.

And so it's a lot of these have the same common elements that we probably talked about earlier this week of the Liberty faction of the party versus, you know, leadership by candidates and where the Chamber of Commerce, economic conservatives, it'll be a real theme that votes floor on Tuesday.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Yes.

And as we know, Bob Savage, that what happens on Tuesday could decide the race because that there's not necessarily Democratic challengers and many of these contested races this time around.

That's right.

We, because of that, have a focus on the several races that are being overweighted by challengers and here we are again, as happened last time, we lost three popular chairs of committees in northern Kentucky.

They were very effective in their roles of he's Emeritus Mosher Massey Antimony, I would say popular and very effective in the leadership roles I served.

And this, depending on how things turn out Tuesday night, could really change the dynamics in the upcoming Kentucky legislative session and 2025 in terms of leadership, if, let's say, some of these ones who are more establishment candidates, if you will, are not successful on Tuesday.

They could, but still, there's a well, a large majority, I would think, of the state House majority who would stick with the leadership that we have.

It's a matter of the continuity of the dedication to working governing, the fundamental job and the role that they play.

And that's why these incumbents have been focused on the Liberty candidates.

They'd like to get them with the other two candidates.

Have it really suggested a whole lot about how we can govern better.

And they have.

I'm somewhat grouping them together.

They've run very rough campaigns, very ugly campaigns.

Here's somebody you agree with 80% of the time and you're saying they're public enemy number one, then you're public enemy number one.

80%.

Yes.

It's an unusual situation, to say the least, that we have these divisions.

It happens, though, when parties grow and majorities grow.

If in a minority, there's not much to fight over.

Right.

Have leadership roles to hand out.

You don't have priorities are set by the other group.

We're in the reversal.

It's it's been a tough transition lately and and people are concerned about it.

People in business and other sectors, nonprofit and the world of work would like to see the stability and call it normalcy work out.

Yeah.

Trey Grayson, you've talked about this before in this exact setting.

Right.

And I'll give you a chance to add to that.

But I'm curious if you think there could be any kind of leadership repercussions that come from how the outcome of Tuesday is, whether it's the establishment candidates who ran or the other candidates who are successful.

It certainly could.

One of the things that's challenging is whenever you have leadership votes and we will do that at the beginning of the next legislative session.

So you'll the chamber will elect a new speaker and the party is all like new new leaders to those positions.

Those are private members.

Close caucus is we don't really know how people voted, so we don't know how authoritative the victory was two years ago by this group of Republican leaders.

But if there is a meaningful shift in the body one way or another, even if leadership still maintains large numbers of support, it's a subtle shift and it might give momentum to legislators to try something different doing session work in a couple of years, you know, two years later to recruit somebody different to run for office.

So there is there is a lot of at stake.

And these are some growing pains Bob mentioned when you're in the minority as Republicans, we Republicans were for so many years, this kind of these fights weren't as consequential.

Certainly we had primaries, but they weren't as meaningful.

So navigating through this, we have the caucus is backing incumbents, naturally, but against other Republicans.

And I live in Boone County and the Boone County Party, which is dominated by the Liberty faction.

They actually put out a mailer criticizing a bunch of the Republican candidates and not just the not just the incumbents.

They were endorsing a couple for open seats as well.

And it really caused a rift.

And inside the Boone County Republican Party, because money was used that was raised the annual Christmas party by all factions of the party, but against a group of Republicans and a couple places with some misleading claims and some really unflattering photographs, the kind of thing you'd think about in a general election.

But this was actually done by a party organization.

We Republicans will get used to this, I think would rather have this problem that big irrelevant of the minority.

But it is certainly a challenge.

Yeah, we'll talk more about all of that on Tuesday night.

Once again, a programing reminder that will be on Tuesday night at eight Eastern, seven central to start our primary election coverage.

Let's take a real big pivot now and just about 45 seconds to talk about some news that is global and that is the arrest of Scottie Scheffler, the number one golfer at Valhalla at that in Louisville for the PGA Championship.

And so the question really is and he's back on the course, he's already shot a birdie at the time that we had recorded this interview.

How does Mayor Greenburg handle this?

And with all the scrutiny of the Louisville Metro Police Department, does this make this worse on a much larger scale?

Trey Grayson, you first.

Well, for first, all of the sports and economic development standpoint, it does put at risk the future of a PGA championship.

Coming back to lowball.

The PGA Tour sold the course since it's got private investor ownership now and between now and then, the tragedy about the pedestrian getting struck by the shuttle was we might never see one of these.

So there's a certainly a big economic impact that, you're right, the police.

And, you know, another challenge with the Louisville Metro Police is not what I think the city or the Commonwealth needs when we're in the nation's eyes.

Yeah.

Real quick, Bob, your thoughts?

Very well put.

Totally out of the blue, totally unexpected news around the world.

Sports news like this goes in every direction, as well as the earlier story of losing someone in the traffic there, a pedestrian, a terribly bad situation.

And what we're going to have to think about and how we make up for it.

Yeah, well, our thoughts, of course, are with the family of the pedestrian that was struck and killed.

And I'll let's hope that things do get better from this point on.

Thank you all for being with us.

We'll see you Tuesday night.

Have a great weekend.

I know you're going to be studying hard.