We have made it to the weekend, so that means it's time to go inside Kentucky politics.

I'm Emily Prince and I'm joined by Mr.

Sherman Brown and Mr.

Trey Watson.

Gentlemen, thank you for being here in the studio.

Great to be here.

Thank you for having us.

Absolutely.

We are glad to.

So many topics for us to dive into.

Let's start off with the first one.

Tomorrow, President Donald Trump is scheduled to be in the Bluegrass State for the second time this year in Northern Kentucky specifically.

Now he's, of course, going on a countrywide travel, a midterm blitz, he says.

Trey, I'm going to start with this with you.

Why specifically is he coming to Northern Kentucky?

You get it.

Two for one, it's you're in Northern Kentucky.

It's where the airport is.

You know, you always have to consider presidential travel.

Sherm and I both work, Vince.

The presidential people.

And you've got to be somewhere near an airport where Air Force One, a motorcade can get there.

So Covington makes sense.

He makes sense.

And you get a two for one with Kentucky races.

In Ohio races, you have a hot Senate race.

Hot governor's race in Ohio, open Senate race here.

So I think, you know, it kind of makes sense just travel logistics wise that you can you can get a two for one up there.

Fair.

If he's so focused on Ohio though, why not meet in Ohio.

I think that I don't know the Ohio numbers well enough, but usually that Cincinnati area becomes kind of a swing area if it's going to be a close election.

So kind of Hamilton County and those suburbs, I would assume that that's kind of the media market that they're trying to hit.

And again, you know, he's he's also got Kentucky.

There's going to be some some bleed over coverage obviously down to Lexington where you have the open congressional race.

So again, I think the appeal of getting that kind of two for one hit there by coming into the Cincinnati area.

Cincinnati media market makes sense.

Sherman, I want to turn to you.

I would jump right in because I think his numbers are just plummeting.

You look at specifically in those races.

So the governor's race in Ohio, the Senate race in Ohio.

I don't think they want him.

I think it is similar to what you saw in Texas, where Ken Paxton went on the record saying, you know, he's actually hurting me, being here, having things that are going on.

And I think in Kentucky, you're seeing it more in the urban areas.

I think, you know, CD six, we'll talk about that here.

And I'm sure with with Zach and Ralph Alvarado, I think, you know, just looking at who has come in for Alvarado, maybe they don't want him here.

And I don't know if that's you know, they can say that on their situation or they're there for their own race.

But I think that's what we're seeing nationally as his numbers are not where they were.

And a lot of people have tied themselves to him.

And now they're, you know, cleaning up their websites, taking them off their websites.

So I think having Trump is a calculated risk because he agitates Democrats who don't like him, but he also excites the mega voters that do like him.

Well, most of those Democrats who don't like them, they're already voting in this midterm election.

The reason that Republicans are struggling in a lot of the country is we have an enthusiasm gap issue we have who are frustrated about things the president has done, and they're not showing up.

Or you have the people who just don't vote when the president is not on the ballot, or he's not giving them specific instructions to vote.

So I think the, you know, the risk reward there is.

Yeah, you're bringing in somebody who's going to make these Democrats mad and may help them on turnout, but they're already turning out.

We need to get our people to turn out.

So I think the hope is that that kind of evens out that that calculus a little bit.

Any specific policy matters or buzzwords that you expect to hear from him start with you.

Oh, it's the same speech everywhere.

It's it's liberals and and, you know, the the lame stream media fake news.

It'll be it'll be the same dog and pony show.

It's like going to see the Rolling Stones.

The same concert every time.

Same set list.

Yeah, well, it won't be liberals.

It'll be communist and socialist.

Puts them together, throws it in.

It doesn't matter what they mean.

They're just, you know, the words that he uses to kind of attack everybody.

Well, we'll see what happens.

We know the Andy Bar at Gallery and are both confirmed to be there.

But we will see what what unfolds there.

So we did touch on the sixth district.

And I want to ask another question about that.

Looking at the sixth district now, there had previously not been any debate scheduled between Zach Dembo and Ralph Alvarado where we would actually see them at the same time.

We found out recently that they are both slated to appear on Fox 56 in Lexington.

I want to ask, if you're running these campaigns, why make the decision to do that at this point?

And what do you expect to hear?

Sherman will kick off with you there.

I think when I look back at the primary, I don't think that a lot of folks I think it's thought this was an opportunity.

I think with the again, with the Trump numbers kind of kind of going down, races all over the country.

Kd6 being one where we didn't think there was going to be a race now is a race.

And in some the last two polls that I've seen, Dembo leading out one outside the margin of error.

So that's me.

Polls are polls.

I mean, you know, we'll we and you and I say this every time.

Election day is what matters.

I mean, as far as the polls, specially when it's a close race like this and trying to figure out who's going to turn out.

I think that's the number one thing.

I think what Trey said earlier is, you know, Democrats are excited.

Will Republicans show up and does Alvarado bring them out specifically in this Lexington, Fayette County?

You know, obviously going to be a going to be blue.

What happens in those other counties and how much is it really, really red or is it more pink.

And that's that's really the question is what we call a heat check.

It's, you know, are you very likely, somewhat likely, very unlikely, somewhat unlikely.

And even one of those polls.

Again, I don't trust the numbers on them because the methodology is but one of them, I think it was a change that change research.

One had Dembo leading by 5% among people who were definitely going to vote.

Alvarado up 23%.

It was the people who were somewhat likely or somewhat unlikely to vote.

So this campaign is in CD six comes down to do those Republicans vote?

Do your one out of four Republicans, two out of four.

Do they show up at the polls?

If they do, Alvarado wins by probably five points.

If they don't, then Bo wins by one to 1 to 4 somewhere in that area.

So it's 100% a turnout game at this point.

You know, the debate, I think just, the Democrats have been hitting Alvarado hard.

It's a chance for him to come straight to camera, defend himself against some of those attacks, hopefully stem any sort of bleeding that's happening there and and try to get motivate those lower propensity Republicans to show up to vote.

I think it's going to be interesting to just to see where the Republicans are with both the war, the war in Iran and the tariffs.

Just to see, is that something that where they are like, you know, I'm just going to stay home or do they flip or do they stick, you know, stick with Trump and go that route?

I don't see that happening because of just what we're seeing nationally.

But if those other two options, if they just stay home or do they come out and flip and vote Democrat in this situation.

When we see these two debate, any particular topic that you're curious to hear them speak on, maybe you feel like they haven't spoken to much?

I think.

I think all of these things have become so produced and rehearsed, I don't know that you're going to hear.

It's going to be a lot of talking points at is going to have to have to literally make a mistake.

That's for it to become interesting.

That's the that's the that's the only thing that can happen at this at this point, it is trying to get your opponent off their game, say something that they respond to.

But but even then it doesn't matter.

Usually stuff like that doesn't matter if you put points behind it on TV and we're almost we're going to be probably too late for that even to really matter.

So, you know, it's going to be interesting for us political watchers, how big of an impact will have in the election?

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Emily has more with Sherman Brown and Trey Watson on a special Monday edition of Inside Kentucky Politics as they discuss the upcoming General Assembly races in Kentucky.