The races for the U.S.

Senate and the U.S.

House are getting the most attention.

But that's not all you'll find on the November 3rd ballot in Kentucky.

You'll be picking candidates for the Kentucky General Assembly and voting yes or no to a constitutional amendment.

Our Emily Prince has more on that.

In a special Monday edition of Inside Kentucky Politics.

What's up now to our leaders in Frankfort?

Want all 100 of the state House races are up for election.

The 19 of our 38 state senators are up for election.

Of course, many of those incumbents are unopposed.

But are there any particular races you're keeping an eye on, maybe that are competitive or that we know we might see a new face or what?

What races are you watching?

Well, one, we're not going to see a new face either way is be here in Lexington with Adam Moore's race.

You know, I think that Adam's running a very strong race.

And.

But Timoney, you know, there's money behind him on the on the Republican side.

I think the atmosphere hurts that because they're kind of.

Those two are kind of like spy versus spy of each other.

Like they're the mirror, mirror image on the other side of the aisle of each other.

And in what's going to be a bad election cycle for publicans, it's hard.

It's hard to.

It's hard to see that that race flipping another year.

I think it could be Timmons, but this year it's going to be tough just because they're so similar.

And then then you get in where I'm watching or in the, in the urban areas.

I mean, with, with again with Trump's numbers kind of watching that.

I think the Republicans in Louisville, those are the races kind of seeing that is where the most money has been spent protecting those Republicans.

You saw the articles yesterday are Wednesday on the independent expenditures coming in.

I'm just watching all of those races.

And I think, I think the only thing you have to remember on those sorts of races is it's kind of like we've always talked about congressional polling numbers.

Congress is super unpopular.

I like my congressman.

It's the other ones that I hate.

And I think, you know, especially for the General Assembly level, you have people like Julie Rocky Adams, Ken Fleming, who've been around for years.

People may be frustrated with Republicans, but they like those people specifically because they've worked hard and have built up a personal brand.

And this is this is the year that you do that for.

This is the year that then acts as a buffer.

The one race I do think you'll see a party flip is the 95th district seat down in Floyd County.

I do think Tanner will probably pick that one up.

So, you know, that's that's a little padding for any losses Republicans may have in the urban areas.

I think this is a good election to be a younger person.

And, you know, much younger than Ray Turner's running to kind of come back.

And everything here on that seat is very good for for Hester Bird.

Gentlemen, one final topic.

We've talked about the candidates, but also on this year's ballot, there will be an amendment.

Amendment one has to do with the governor's power to give pardons.

It asks voters if 60 days before a gubernatorial election all the way until the swearing in of a new governor, if that power to pardon should cease to exist.

State Senator Chris McDaniel has backed it.

He often cites, well, he really solely cites Governor Matt Bevin's pardons as the reason for it.

I want to ask first, when we talk about these constitutional amendments, are voters aware that this is on the ballots?

Do we have any indication of are people familiar with what this means?

Determine what do you think?

I haven't seen a lot of ads.

I haven't seen many posts.

I've seen Senator McDaniel McDaniel's post about it.

The governor made a comment the other day, just kind of, you know, they didn't think that it was appropriate as far as focusing on one, one governor.

And I do think the Matt Bevin, what happened there.

I mean, if you go back and look at the history of all the different pardons that came forward, some with money behind them, there's a lot of a lot of problems with that.

The issue that I see more and more of it, of playing in will be maybe in that debate than we were talking about because of the demo tying Alvarado to Bevin, being that Alvarado was the running mate just for history of votes.

But that piece will be to me.

Is is that something to even bring up and to see?

You know, if I were Alvarado, be ready for those questions that are coming.

But that would be, you know, the, the, the only thing as far as the amendment itself, I don't think I've not heard anybody ask about it.

It's not just not Kentuckians in general on those amendments, unless it's something super controversial like the abortion amendment or the School Choice Amendment.

Kentuckians typically have no idea.

And the the reason it's hard to pass the minimum is because when they have when they don't know about it, the kind of reflective reaction is to just vote against it if I don't understand it.

So a lot of it to I've not seen the wording.

A lot of it depends on how it's worded on the ballot, and there's specific rules on how that can be worded.

You know, as to the the effect on CD six, I just I find it incredibly hard to believe that there are any Andy Barr voters who are going to say, well, I was going to vote for Alvarado, too.

But then I found out he was bad.

Doesn't exist.

I think that's a turnout piece for Democrats.

It's to agitate lower propensity Democrats who don't like Matt Bevin and get them to turn out it.

There is no persuasion involved in it, and I think those voters are already voting.

So I don't know.

It's confused me why they keep running that ad, because to me, the people that I would be targeting that add to are already engaged.

So why don't you move on to a different message?

That's that.

That message is confused me the entire election.

It's a pretty strong message as far as the polling.

No, I mean, I'm with you, but as far as the polling of how unpopular he is to stick with.

But I think you've already got those people locked in and showing up on Election Day, so why not pivot to a different message with early voting?

I mean, if it's the if it's the way that it is, I mean, roll through that and then get into the next discussion as far as folks going and going out and voting.

But I think you got the the Trump message.

I mean, you know, it's a it's a weird spot for Democrats to be in where we can tie you guys for national figures.

And normally it's not the I mean, not the situation.

It's normally the opposite way.

If you ask me to, to design a strategy to lose the most possible seats, I don't know that I wouldn't even come up with the Trumps come up with.

It's just it's it's been disastrous.

And it's 100% in the white House.

And we'll see how bad the damage is.

All right, gentlemen, well, messaging is everything, right.

So we will see an amendment one.

People need to be aware that it's on the ballot.

There you go.

All right.

Thank you all so much for breaking down this Kentucky politics.

You all take care.

Thank you.