
KY Governor’s Race Recap
Clip: Season 2 Episode 113 | 5m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
A look back at the some of the campaign messages democratic incumbent Governor Andy ...
A look back at the some of the campaign messages democratic incumbent Governor Andy Beshear and republican challenger Attorney General Daniel Cameron have delivered to Kentuckians, over the last few months.
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KY Governor’s Race Recap
Clip: Season 2 Episode 113 | 5m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
A look back at the some of the campaign messages democratic incumbent Governor Andy Beshear and republican challenger Attorney General Daniel Cameron have delivered to Kentuckians, over the last few months.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAbout 24 hours left in the campaign for governor and other statewide offices.
The candidates are all over Kentucky looking for last minute votes.
We'll show you some of their stops in just a minute.
But first, a look back of some of the messages by the campaigns.
Democratic incumbent Governor Andy Beshear and Republican challenger Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
What they've delivered to Kentuckians over the last few months.
My opponent's campaign is built on attacks and lies.
But you know me.
And you know it isn't true.
I made it in college football as a walk on.
None of the scholarship, but all the hard work wasn't glamorous.
But it taught me to leave it all on the field.
And that's exactly what I'll do as governor.
The school issue that Daniel Cameron is really, you know, talking a lot about how kids are being indoctrinated by leftist ideology.
It's a painting, very dark picture of what's going on in Kentucky schools.
Whereas, you know, Andy Beshear is giving you a bit more of a Pollyanna version of what's going on in Kentucky schools right now.
If you want to catch a kid up on math, they have to have a math teacher in the room every day.
If you want to catch a kid up on reading, you got to have an English teacher in the room every day.
We have to invest more in our system of public education.
I pushed for teacher raises.
My education first plan would provide an 11% across the board race.
But the biggest threat to our public education system are vouchers.
I oppose vouchers 100%.
They steal money from our public schools and send them to our private schools.
The reason he won't answer is he supports vouchers.
He has time and time again.
I agree that we need to expand opportunity and choice, but this program and policy that I've put forth is about our public schools.
I'm married to a school teacher.
My sister in law is a schoolteacher.
My mother retired as a public educator.
I grew up in the Hardin County school system.
So I believe wholeheartedly in our public education system, in giving it the resources and giving our teachers the salaries that they deserve.
And I've offered the Cameron catch up plans to catch up our kids on the disastrous decision that this governor made to shut down our schools.
And I think this is a race about crazy versus normal, where.
Sort of the crazy normal hits is that at the end of the day, we see those numbers maybe.
But when you go to the grocery and you're buying groceries or you're looking at inflation, I mean, it's not the same thing.
So how is that translating for the voters at home?
And that is where that message is sticking with General Cameron.
Again, it is harder to buy groceries.
It is harder to purchase gas.
It is harder to secure childcare.
The way that we can help ease that is about eliminating the income tax.
You at home gauge how the economy is doing by how much money you have in your wallet and in your savings account.
And that's why I want to give more of it back to you.
Look, at the end of the day, there's a philosophical difference here.
I believe that you should have more of your hard earned money in your pocket.
Andy Beshear believes and you just heard him say he wants more revenue to the government.
And the governor talks a lot about an economy on fire.
But the fact of the matter is this is, for many folks, an economy that's on life support.
Opponents says that things cost too much with inflation.
Well, what he's going to do is increase sales tax on everything and then apply it to groceries and medicine.
Otherwise, he's going to gut public safety.
He's going to gut health care.
And he's going to gut public education.
He simply can't afford the investments in those with his plan.
But Daniel Cameron's plan and the speed at which he's promised to do it is the Kansas plan.
It's what they did in that state and it cratered their economy.
The reason that we can talk about cutting the income taxes together, we have built the strongest economy.
Our state has ever seen.
And we're building the number one and two largest battery plants on planet Earth.
And I believe the number five one as well.
Andy, when he gets to go around the state and have these debates, we get to see him kind of taking a victory lap for this record breaking economy, for record employment, for the infrastructure investments that he's had for the way that he's really led us through some really tough tragedies in this in this commonwealth.
Cameron really came to this point of not ever saying whether he would personally support any exceptions to the state's abortion ban, but saying he would if the legislature passed a law.
I've said if the legislature were to bring me a bill with the exceptions, I would sign it.
Well, look, I am the pro-life candidate and Andy Beshear is the pro-abortion candidate.
He wants more abortions and wants you, the taxpayer, to pay for.
When he was in my position as attorney general, he refused to defend a 20 week ban on abortion.
As governor, he has vetoed a ban on 15 weeks for abortion.
I'm going to be a governor that promotes life and make sure that there are life affirming option.
Kentucky has the most restrictive, draconian law anywhere in the country.
It removes all options, even for victims of rape and incest, some as young as nine years old.
No child should ever have to carry the child of her rapist.
Anyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it's like to stand in my shoes.
I will press every day to get exceptions for rape and incest because those that have been harmed and violated absolutely deserve those options.
So some of those are the same message that are being repeated as both Bashir and Cameron make a final push for votes traveling across the state on bus tours.
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Clip: S2 Ep113 | 1m 38s | Beshear's "Go Vote Tour" was in Eastern Kentucky. (1m 38s)
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Clip: S2 Ep113 | 1m 15s | Cameron was in Lexington earlier today on his Fight for Kentucky bus tour. (1m 15s)
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