VARIOUS LEGISLATIVE LEADER AS WELL.

SO LOTS GOING ON HERE THAT BE BRINGING YOU HERE SHORTLY AND RIGHT NOW, WE'LL GO BACK TO THE STUDIO.

>> IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU.

ASSOCIATE PETS CALLED IT FOR GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR SO -- >> >> THEY SAID IT WOULDN'T BE TOO LONG AFTER THAT THAT HE WOULD BE HERE SPEAKING.

I THINK IT IS VERY INTERESTING PROBABLY TWO MINUTES AGO, THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ENTERED THE ROOM SO I WOULD SAY WE'RE LITERALLY WITHIN MINUTING FROM HEARING FROM GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR ACCEPTING VICTORY.

>> WE'LL HEAR FROM THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND SHE'LL YIELD THE PODIUM TO THE GOVERNOR.

YOU'LL GIVE US THE QUEUE.

SO THANK YOU FOR BEING ON THE AND BREAKING IT DOWN FOR US.

WE LEARNED A MOMENT AGO THE AP CALLED IT FOR GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

AND, SO THAT IS NOT SURPRISING.

AND, WE THINK THAT AS YOU WERE SAYING JUST BEFORE WE STARTED THAT THIS COULD BE AN EARLIER NIGHT THAN WE ANTICIPATED.

WHY?

>> I'M LOOKING AT VOTES THAT HAVE COME IN VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS SO FAR.

19% OF THE VOTES COUNTED IN A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

THAT'S AN ESTIMATE FROM THE AP.

RIGHT NOW DANIEL CAMERON THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, 46% OF THE VOTE.

THE NEXT CLOSE PERSON IS AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER, NEARLY 22 AND KELLY CRAFT FORMER AMBASSADOR IS AT 18.

AND WHAT I'M HEARING ANECDOTALLY FROM MY SOURCES, CAMERON IS RUNNING UP BIG MARGINS IN A LOT OF BIG AREAS.

JEFFERSON, LAUREL, CASEY, BOONE.

YOU LOOK AROUND THE STATE.

WHERE ARE THE VOTE CENTERS FOR REPUBLICAN PRIMARY?

MOSTLY IN THE LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON MEDIA MARKET AND IN THE REPUBLICAN VOTE-RICH COUNTIES, IN WHAT WE AFFECTIONATELY CALL THE OLD FIVETHAND CAMERON SEEMS TO BE RUNNING UP BIG MARGINS.

I THINK THAT BOTH THEY WERE HOPING TO GET SOME MARGIN BUT IN THE EASTERN TIME ZONE, LOOKING GOOD FOR CAMERON SO FAR.

>> LET'S GO BACK TO THE OTHER PART THAT WE LED OFF WITH AND THAT'S THE GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR SECURED THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.

NOT A BIG SURPRISE AS YOU HEARD CHIP TALK ABOUT MANY PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED THERE WAS NOT EVEN A CONTEST THERE.

>> >> PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED THAT ANYONE WOULD WANT TO CONTEST HIM.

HE'S BEEN A KIND AND COMPASSIONATE AND THOUGHTFUL LEADER.

THE MAJORITY OF NOT ONLY DEMOCRATS, BUT ALSO A LOT OF REPUBLICANS LIKE HIM GIVE HIM HIGH APPROVAL RATINGS.

NO SURPRISE THAT HE'S THE WINNER.

>> SO WE'LL TALK AREN'T THE BIG TICKET ITEM AND THAT'S THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY CONTEST FOR GOVERNOR.

SO YOU JUST HEARD SCOTT JENNINGS' ANALYSIS.

WHAT YOU WOULDED AD?

>> I WOULD GIVE -- THINK PEOPLE WITH TEXTING BOTH SCOTT AND ME.

THE QUESTION -- YOU SAW THE POLLS THE LAST WEEKEND.

SHOW FAIRLY COMFORTABLE LEAD.

POLLING IS HARD IN PRIMARIES.

WE KNEW THIS WOULD BE A LOW TURNOUT PRIMARY BUT I THINK IN SOME RESPECTS THE POLL MIGHT HAVE HELPED TO PUSH MORE VOTERS TO CAMERON AND MAYBE STRETCHED THE MARGIN OUT.

THERE IS AILS A BIT OF A RALLY BEHIND THE FLAG.

IF YOU'RE REPUBLICAN, YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR THE WINNER AND SEND THEM OUT WITH AS MUCH MOMENTUM BUT CAMERON LOOKS OUT TO BE REALLY GOOD START THIS EVENING WITH THE VOTERS.

THEY HAVE TO BE PLEASED.

THIS COULD BE SOMEWHAT OF AN EARLY NIGHT.

WE MAY NOT NEED TO EXTEND PAST 10:00 P.M. WITH THIS CONVERSATION.

>> HE REALLY DISTHE POLL THAT CAME OUT BEFORE THE PRIMARY AND SAID IT DOESN'T SERVE ANY PUBLIC SERVICE AND THAT, JUST HAD A LOT OF BAD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THAT AND YOU HAVE ALLUDED TO IT.

>> WE DID NOT HAVE MUCH POLLING DATA.

FOR US JUNKYS, I'M GLAD ONE DID POLLING BECAUSE WE MADE THREE PUBLIC POLLS IN THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN.

ONE IN JANUARY, ONE A FEW WEEKS AGO AND THE LAST TWO ARE THE SAME OUTFITS SO YOU CAN AT LEAST LOOK AT A BIT OF A TREND.

SO THERE WAS SOME VALUE NOW.

VERY FEW PEOPLE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF EARLY VOTING AND MOST VOTING TOOK PLACE TODAY.

AND IT DID NOT SEEM FAIR.

BUT THOSE FOLKS WOULD HAVE MADE UP THEIR MINDS AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ACTIATE.

BUT, I FOUND IT HELPFUL TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE RACE.

AND GIVE US SOME CONFIDENCE PREPARING FOR TONIGHT.

>> SO BOB, THE FACT THAT KELLY CRAFT IS AS FAR BACK AS SHE SHE SEEMS TO BE AT THIS POINT, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT.

>> IT WILL BE TOUGH TO CATCH UP GIVEN THE DYNAMICS RIGHT NOW.

19% OF THE VOTE, AND, TRAILING.

AND THIRD, ABOUT THAT POLL, IF THE POLL HAD BEEN MAYBE TEN DAYS AGO, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MOTIVATOR ACROSS THE BOARD, PARTICULARLY FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.

THAT REFLECT WHAT IS WE'RE HEARING FROM OTHER CAMPAIGNS AND EVEN WASHINGTON, D.C. SOURCES, SO, IN NO MEASURE DID CAMERON SEEM TO BE RUNNING ANYTHING BUT FIRST.

AND HE'S RUNNING AT THIS MOMENT.

>> >> THE PAID MEDIA CAMPAIGN DID NOT START, THAT POLL WAS A GOOD SNAPSHOT OF THIS IS HOW IT HAS GONE.

WE DID NOT HAVE AS MUCH MARKETING AND THAT WAS A MOORE FULLY INFORMED ELECTORATE.

THOSE 500 VOTERS MUCH MORE AFFECTED BY WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY.

>> AND AL CROSS.

>> I DON'T THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO BE POLLING WHILE PEOPLE ARE VOTING AND TO RELEASE RESULTS THAT CLOSE TO THE ELECTION.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THOSE CARDS HAVE BEEN DEALT.

I THINK THAT THE CRAFT PEOPLE FOCUSED ON STILL HAVING A SHOT BECAUSE THERE WAS DOUBT ABOUT THE TURNOUT FOR CAMERON.

YOU KNOW, DID WE HAVE THE KIND OF ORGANIZATION OR, EFFORT STRUCTURE THAT COULD GET PEOPLE OUT TO VOTE.

AND, IT APPEARS NOW THAT HE DO DOES.

AND.

>> THE NAME IDENTIFICATION IN THE RACE, HIS NEGATIVE SCORES WERE ALWAYS VERY LOW, DESPITE FAIRLY WELL-FUNDED ONSLAUGHT OF ATTACKS AND THAT WAS TRUE IN THE LAST POLL.

SO, IN THE LAST SURVEY, THE BALANCE SHARE WAS IN THE LOW 30s, BUT TONIGHT, IN THE FIRST 26% OF VOTES THAT HAVE BEEN COUNTED YOU SEE HIM RIDING IN THE MID-40s.

SO I THINK THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS A THOUGHT, PERHAPS, THAT, COME ELECTION DAY, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T QUITE YET DECIDED, WHEN YOU SEE A CANDIDATE SITTING IN THE 60s AND HAS A VERY LOW NEGATIVE SCORE AND HIS NEXT CLOSEST OPPONENTS JUST HAVE A LOT LOWER POSITIVE IMAGE, THEY ARE GOING TO GET A LOT OF THOSE LATE BREAKERS AND IF THESE NUMBERS HOLD, THAT WILL HAVE BEEN TRUE FOR CAMERON AND RIGHT NOW, WITH THE LITTLE OVER A QUARTER OF THE VOTE, IN HE'S SITTING AT 45.6%.

AIR GAIN, THERE'S CENTRAL TIME ZONE COUNTIES THAT CRAFT, WHO WAS SUPPORTED BY CONGRESSMAN COMER AND HAD A RUNNING MATES, THERE ARE VOTES DOWN THERE AND THEY COULD EAT INTO MARGIN MAYBE BUT IF DANIEL WERE TO WIND UP IN THE MID-40s OR BETTER THAT WOULD BE A STRONGER THAN EXPECTED PERFORMANCE BASED ON WHAT FOLKS HAD SEEN IN THE LAST POLLING.

>> SO, IT IS ALREADY CALLED.

THE AP, NEW YORK TIMES HAVE ALREADY CALLED THE RACE.

>> FOR DANIEL CAMERON.

THAT'S LATE-BREAKING NEWS.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES SO THE PRESUMPTIVE OR CAN WE JUST SAY, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AT THIS POINT, DANIEL CAMERON, ALL BUT CERTIFIED.

ABSOLUTELY.

>> HAS NERVE SEEN ANY MOVIES?

>> TWO HOURS AND 45 MINUTES LEFT TO GO.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> THERE ARE SOME JOKES HERE.

>> DANIEL CAMERON DID IT.

IN THE SAME WAY I THINK THAT, ANDY BESHEAR HAS BECOME A KNOWN QUANTITY, TO MOST KENTUCKIANS IN THE WAY THAT NO OTHER KENTUCKY GOVERNOR EVER WAS, BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, CAMERON HAS ALSO BECOME A PRETTY KNOWN QUANTITY TOO, PARTLY BY BEING THE YANG TO BESHEAR'S YING.

I SUED HIM IN COURT, TAKEN FAIRLY HIGH-PROFILE ON THESE OPIOID SETTLEMENTS, AND, OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT CRIMINAL JUSTICE MATTERS.

AND, I THINK THAT, HE HAD A NAME RECOGNITION ADVANTAGE THAT CLEARLY PROPELLED HIM TO THE FRONT OF THAT POLL, TO GET THE TRUMP ENDORSEMENT.

AND, JUST NEVER REALLY WAS TAKEN DOWN.

YOU KNOW, NOBODY EVER REALLY -- >> THE THING ABOUT DANIEL IS HE WENT THROUGH AN ONSLAUGHT.

IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RIGHT NOW, ONE THING THAT HELPS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES AND OFFICIALS IS, IF YOU LIVE THROUGH AN ONSLAUGHT, WHETHER IT IS FROM HOLLYWOOD OR THE MEDIA OR FROM THE DEMOCRATS OR ALL THREE OF THE AT THE SAME TIME AND COME OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THEY GET THE FEELING THAT YOU'RE A FIGHTER AND THAT YOU HAVE EMERGED, YOU ALMOST GET LIKE A FORCE FIELD.

WE SEE THIS EFFECT WITH TRUMP AND THIS EFFECT WITH DESANTIS IN FLORIDA AND WITH CAMERON, IT WAS THBRIONA TAYLOR CASE.

AND THERE WAS A SENSE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT'S WOULD NOT BEND TO A MOB OF PEOPLE WHO WANTED HIM TO DO WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH KENTUCKY LAW.

BUT AS A POLITICAL MATTER.

WHEN YOU LIVE THROUGH AN ONSLAUGHT LIKE THAT AND COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE, WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU IS, ALL OTHER ATTACKS THAT COME IN FUTURE, THERE IS A LOT OF CONCERNITY SYSTEM AND HE HAD ATTACKS LOBED AGAINST HIM BUT NOT ONE STUCK AND A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH WHAT DANIEL LIVED THROUGH AND HOW REPUBLICANS NOW VIEW HIM AS A FIGHTER AND, REALLY, HE IS GOING TO BE THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN KENTUCKY, YOU KNOW, FOR NEXT FEW MONTHS HERE AND IF HE WERE TO WIN THE FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR OF THIS STATE,.

>> IS RACE AN ISSUE HERE AT ALL?

>> WELL, THINK IT IS HISTORIC WHAT HE'S ALREADY DONE.

HE'S THE FIRST STAND ALONE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WIN STATEWIDE OFFICE IN KENTUCKY.

IF GETS ELECTED GOVERNOR, HE'LL BE OUR FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN GOVERNOR.

I THINK ICE GLAZER BLAZING A TRAIL BUT WHAT THE PARTY IS TRANSFORRING INTO, A MULTI-RACIAL PARTY THAT'S APPEALING TO A LOT MO PEOPLE THAN SOME DEMOCRATS WANT YOU TO BELIEVE AND I THINK THAT DANIEL IS AT THE FOREFRONT.

>> AND HE ALSO EMBRACED THE WILKINSON THEORIES IN IDEOLOGY SO THAT CAN BE PERVASIVE TO A CONTINGENT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

>> HE'S NO LIBERAL AND MODERATE.

HE'S A REAL CONSERVATIVE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND HE'S A CONSERVATIVE GUY, AND, THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT WHERE HIS VALUES ARE AMONG REPUBLICANS.

SO, HE'S GOT A LOT GOING FOR HIM.

THE RACE AGAINST AN ANDY BESHEAR IS FASCINATING.

I THINK THIS HANDICAPPERS WOULD -- BUT IF HE LOOK AT THE VOTER REGISTRATION IN KENTUCKY OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND HOW RED THE STATE HAS GOTTEN, THIS THING IS EVERY BIT, AT LEAST A TOSSUP TO START AND BOTH PARTY STRATEGISTS KNOW AND IT WE'LL SEE A TON MONEY AND THE OTHER TWO GOVERNOR RACES GOING ON ARE PROBABLY FOREGONE CONCLUSIONS SO THE NATIONAL BALLGAME IS IN KIN.

>> I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE SAID, WELL, IF HE'S ABLE TO EAT THAT OUT, IT MIGHT GIVE ANDY BESHEAR A RUN FOR HIS MONEY BUT CONSIDERING WHERE DANIEL CAMERON IS NOW WITH 45.4% AND THIS IS 29% OF THE VOTES COUNTED, HE'S LOOKING AT A PRETTY FORMIDABLE CHALLENGE SO WHAT DOES THIS DO TO THE STRATEGY OF ANDY BESHEAR OF GOING FORWARD?

>> GENERAL CAMERON IS A NICE GUY.

DO I THINK THAT HE'S PROTECTED FROM ATTACKS?

NO.

I THINK THAT WHAT HE DID WAS SELF PROTECTIONISM, AND, THE BRIONA PHASE ALREADY CASE.

ED TO PROTECT HIMSELF IN THE GOVERNOR'S RACE MOVING FORWARD.

AND, I DON'T THINK THAT HE'S TERRIBLY CHARAS MATTICKAND SAID WHAT WILL DO AS GOVERNOR.

I THINK THAT HE SAID WHAT HE HAS DONE WHICH IS SUED ANDY BESHEAR, SUED JOE BIDEN.

SUED EVERYBODY.

AND, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT LEA NOT SAID WHAT HE WILL DO.

GOVERNOR BESHEAR IS SOMEBODY WHO WE KNOW BAEZ BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN HIM DO IT.

>> IT IS HARD TO COME AGAINST ANDY BESHEAR WHO LED WITH THOUGHTFULNESS, COMPASSION AND KINDNESS.

AND, WHO HAS A PLAN.

>> WE'LL GET TO THAT POINT BECAUSE THERE WAS A PIECE THAT AL CROSS SENT ME FROM RICHARD NELSON WITH THE COMMONWEALTH POLL ABOUT CHARACTER MATTERING AND THE FACT THAT ANDY BESHEAR HAS BEEN A CRISIS GOVERNOR BUT THERE HAVE BEEN MISSTEPS.

NOT TOO LONG AGO THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CRISIS WAS A BIG CRISIS.

A LOT OF FLAK THAT.

WE'VE YET TO SEE HOW THE WHOLE DEBACKLE WITH THE CLEANUP IN KENTUCKY MAY MATERIALIZE AGAINST HIM ALTHOUGH HE ALLEGEDLY HANDLED THE CRISIS ANDS AT THE DISASTERS WELL BY MANY ESTIMATIONS SO THERE ARE SKELETONS THERE THAT COULD BE RESURRECTED AGAINST ANDY BESHEAR.

>> YOU HAVE A CAMPAIGN, AND IT GIVES -- ALLOWS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CAMERON TO MAKE THE CASE TO SAY, YEAH, YOU MAY THINK THAT YOU APPROVE AND WANT TO REELECT ANDY BESHEAR NOW BUT YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE RECORD AND YOU LOOK AT WITH IT HERE IS A COUNTER POINT, AND LIKE THEY'LL DO TO CAMERON.

I DID TAKE ONE ISSUE AS MORGAN SAYS, CAMERON HAS A TON OF CHARISMA.

HIS POLITICAL SKILLS AND CHARISMA AND PRESENCE IS AT THE NATIONAL KIND OF LEVEL.

I MEAN, HE -- YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IT IS FAIR TO SAY HE PROBABLY BECAUSE THE NARROWNESS OF THE PORTFOLIO AND RELATIVELY NEW, LIKE ANDY BESHEAR, THEY WERE FIRST-TIME RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND BECAME ATTORNEY GENERAL, ONE TERM, AND SO, I THINK HE HAS TO HAVE SOME TIME TO TALK ABOUT WHAT IS HIS VISION FOR GOVERNOR IN A GENERAL ELECTION FORMAT.

>> AND HE'S READY.

>> IS HE READY FOR THAT SO THAT'S A HURDLETHAT HE'LL HAVE TO OVERCOME.

BUT THE POLITICAL SKILLS AND CHARISMA, HE'S TOP NOTCH.

AND SO I THINK THAT HE'LL BE PRETTY FORMIDABLE IN THE FALL FOR THAT REASON.

AND SCOTT IS RIGHT.

IN SOME RESPECTS THAT IS 60-40 REPUBLICAN STATE RIGHT NOW.

ANDY BESHEAR PROVES TO BE A 60-40 POPULAR GOVERNOR NOW AND SOMETHING WILL GIVE.

AND THAT'S WHY IT WILL BE FASCINATING TO SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT.

>> > I DON'T THINK IT IS QUITE A 50/50.

YOU SEE IN THE AD THE GENERAL ELECTION STRATEGY.

I HAVE TAKEN ON ANDY BESHEAR AND JOE BIDEN AND I STAND UP FOR VALUES, THAT WE HAVE IN COMMON.

AND, THAT WILL BE A REASONABLY EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN MESSAGE.

THE QUESTION REALLY IS WHETHER BESHEAR CAN MAINTAIN THIS SUPPORT THAT HE BUILT DURING THE PANDEMIC.

NELSON SAID, AS MATTER OF HIS DEMEANOR.

AND HE COMES ACROSS AS A NICE COMPASSIONATE GUY, AND REALLY DOESN'T HAVE ANY AXES TO GRIND.

BUT ALSO A GOOD POINT ON YOUR SHOW LAST NIGHT.

IT IS HARD TO RUN AGAINST WHAT BESHEAR DID INITIALLY IN THE PANDEMIC.

AND YOU TALK ABOUT CHURCHS ON PRIMARY SUNDAY BUT I DON'T THINK THAT PLAYS IN THE GENERAL.

BUT THERE MIGHT BE TRACTION SAYING THAT HE LET IT GO ON TOO LONG.

AND SORT OF HAVE BEEN BACK IF SCHOOL AND THERE IS RESEARCH THAT SUPPORTS THAT.

SEE, I THINK THAT, CAMERON IS ALREADY LAID THE GROUND WORK FOR THAT CAM RAIN.

>> THESE RACES, DON'T GET AS MUCH NOTARIETY.

WHAT THEY NEED IS A TREASURER WHO UNDERSTANDS THE OFFICE THEY ARE RUNNING FOR AND I'M THE CANDIDATE IN THIS RACE TO DO THAT.

BUT THE COMPETITION IS NO LESS FIERCE.

HOW I DO SEE THIS OFFICE?

AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK OUT FOR TAXPAYERS TO RESTORE TO KENTUCKY FISCAL DISCIPLINE.

>> WE'LL SEE WHERE OUR GOVERNMENT IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL AND THAT'S ABSOLUTELY WITH THE STATE TREASURER HAS ACCESS.

SOME OF KENTUCKY'S BALLOT RACES COULD BE COMPETITIVE COME ELECTION NIGHT.

>> > >> WHO BECAME KNOWN FOR REFUSING TO SHUT DOWN A COULD COFFEE SHOP DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE PANDEMIC.

>> YOU MUST VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN ANDREW, ANDREW STOOD UP TO BESHEAR'S MANDATES WHEN HE REFUSED TO SHUT DOWN THE COFFEE SHOP.

AS TREASURER, HE'LL FIGHT TO STOP OUR TAX DOLLARS FROM FUNNING THE FAR LEFT AGENDA.

>> THE THREE CANDIDATES ARE VYING FOR WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE THE CLOSEST ELECTION IN THIS PRIMARY SEASON.

WITH FLOW PUBLIC POLLING ON BALLOT RACES, THE TWO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ARE FACES FAMILIAR TO FRANKFORT.

>> THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF LIFE EXPERIENCES THAT I BRING TO THE RACE.

>> STATE REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD HEATH IS MAKING HIS SECOND ATTEMPT AT BECOMING THE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER.

HE LOST IN THE 2015 PRIMARY BY LESS THAN 1500 VOTES.

HE'S RUNNING AGAINST JONATHAN SHELL.

SHELL SERVED AS HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER AFTER REPUBLICANS TOOK CONTROL OF THE CHAMBER AFTER 94 YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC CONTROL.

>> >> SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL ADAMS SCRUBBED OVER 300,000 INACTIVE VOTER, REQUIRED VOTER ID, CRACKDOWN ON FRAUD, DEMANDING PAPER BALLOTS.

>> AND MICHAEL ADAMS IS RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERM AS SECRETARY OF STATE.

HE'S RUNNING AGAINST ONE OF HIS PRIMARY OPPONENTS FROM 2019.

STEVE AND ALAN MIRACLE.

>> TRUTH, TRANSPARENCY AND LEADERSHIP BACK TO THIS OFFICE.

THIS MAY 16, VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE.

>> BUT ADAMS MORE THAN DOUBLED THE TOTAL IN THE 2019, LEADING TO QUESTIONS IF HE CAN PULL AN UPSET IN THIS YEAR'S REMATCH.

WE'LL KNOW WHO WILL BE REPRESENTING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AFTER TOMORROW'S PRIMARY ELECTION.

FOR KET, I'M CASEY PARKER-BELL.

>> SO OUR GRATITUDE TO CASEY AND WE HAVE SOME LATE BREAKING NEWS.

THAT'S WHAT WE DO ON ELECTION NIGHT.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CALLED AND THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR TREASURER, MARK METCALFE THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, YOU SAW ALL THREE OF THE GENTLEMEN WHO WERE ON YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW.

AND IN OUR STUDIO A FEW WEEK AGO, I THINK IT WAS APRIL 24 WHEN THEY APPEARED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD DO IN AT A TIME TREASURER OFFICE OFFICE AND LOOKS LIKE Mr. METCALFE WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR THE OFFICE OF STATE TREASURE IRSO LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS RACE.

YOU KNOW, I MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT WOULD HISTORY HAVE BEEN.

SO IN THAT CASE, HE HAS BEEN AROUND THE PARTY FOR A LONG TIME AND I REMEMBER BUMPING INTO HIM ON FILING DEADLINE DAY.

HE PUT A BUN OF HIS OWN MONEY IN THE RACE AND THAT WAY HE COULD CAMPAIGN AND GET HIS MESSAGE OUT.

HE WAS ABLE TO RAISE A LOT OF MONEY BUT DID NOT HAVE PERSONAL WEALTH AND IT LOOK LIKES WHERE IT MATTED OUT THAT METCALFE PUT IT COMFORTABLY THAT KIND OF RESIDUAL MAY BE AROUND THE PARTY AND ALSO JUST GETTING TO THE AIR AND MAKING A MESSAGE.

HE WORKED ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

THERE WAS THAT SENTIMENT IN THE PARTY.

A LOT OF REPS, ARE BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF THAT HE HAD A WIN.

>> I WAS GOING TO SAY, SO, TELL THE VIEWERS WHY.

>> WELL, ONE, HE MIGHT BE A CANDIDATE WHO MIGHT HAVE HARD TIME IN THE FALL.

SO THERE WAS THAT BUT HE WAS PART OF THE PARTY THAT WAS IN A WAR WITH McCONSO THERE WAS A LOT OF MONEY SPENT TO BEAT HIM IN THE PRIMARY AND SO, THINK THAT THAT IS -- THIS IS ONE OF THE RACES WHERE THERE WAS A CONCERN THAT HE MIGHT PULL OUT A WIN.

AND, METCALFE'S VICTORY.

>> SO HE'S MORE MAINSTREAM YOU WOULD SAY?

>> RIGHT.

>> EVEN THOUGH HIS ADS MAY NOT HAVE SIGNALED THAT.

>> AND I THINK THAT METCALFE SAILED TO VICTORY IN FALL.

60-40 REPUBLICAN RACES AND METCALFE WOULD BE THE NEXT TREASURER.

>> AND HE WOULD BE UP AGAINST MICHAEL BOWMAN WHO LOST YEARS AGO.

>> FOLLOWING THIS BECAUSE MOST OF US, ALL THREE, COOPERRIDER DID ATTACK OLEKA WHICH MAY HAVE OPENED THE GATE FOR METCALFE EVEN MORE.

COOPERRIDEER IS PART OF THE EFFORT TO DISPARAGE, I'LL SAY, THE KENTUCKY ELECTION PROCESS.

IT HAS BEEN BAD NIGHT FOR ELECTION DENIERS.

AND THAT'S A WONDERFUL THING TO ACKNOWLEDGE.

THE ELECTION DENIERS ARE HAVING A BAD NIGHT AND FRANKLY DESERVE IT.

>> Renee: SECRETARY OF STATE, MICHAEL ADAMS, THE INCUMBENT.

>> MIKE HAS 64% OF THE VOTE RIGHT NOW WITH A THIRD COUNTED.

LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE CALLING FOR HIM.

BECAUSE HE WAS MY COLLEGE ROOMMATE ,.

>> SO DISH.

>> AT ONE TIME... NO, MIKE ADAMS.

>> HOW BIG WAS THAT STACK OF BEERS?

>> MIKE ADD AMOUNTS IS THE BEST SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE COUNTRY.

HE HAS ABSOLUTELY KEPT EVERY PROMISE THAT HE HAS MADE AND HE HAS STOOD UP TO THE BULLIES WHO HAVE TRIED TO MAKE ALL THESE CRAZY CLAIMS ABOUT OUR ELECTIONS HERE IN KENTUCKY AND HE HAS DONE IT FEARLESSLY.

AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW ANYBODY OTHER THAN HIS OPPONENTS WHO HAVE SAID ANYTHING OTHER THAN, MAN, MIKE ADAMS HAS DONE A TERRIFIC JOB.

HE DESERVES THIS NOMINATION.

WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN KENTUCKY BY CRUSHING IN THIS PRIMARY, IS PROOF THAT IF YOU PERFORM IN OFFICE AND YOU TELL THE TRUTH-- HE HAD A QUOTE IN AN NBC NEWS NEWS ARTICLE THIS WEEK THAT YOU CAN'T FEED THE TIGER BECAUSE THE TIGER WILL STILL EAT YOU.

YOU CANNOT PLAY FOOTSIES WITH CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND HE STOOD UP TO THE WELL ON THING AND HE IS CRUSHING AND I'M PROUD I KNOW HIM BECAUSE HIS DOING THAT IN KENTUCKY IN A PRIMARY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, I THINK FOR NATIONALLY.

>> THIS IS THE RACE... >> HE HAS DONE A PUBLIC SERVICE BY WINNING THIS PRIMARY IN THE WAY THAT HE DID, BECAUSE WE ARE DEALING WITH AN ELECTORATE HERE ACCORDING TO EMERSON COLLEGE POLL WHERE 79% OF THEM BELIEVE THAT THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN FROM DONALD TRUMP IN 2020 AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT.

IT'S A VICTORY FOR THE TRUTH.

>> AND COULD BE A TEMPLATE AND LESSON FOR OTHERS.

YOU HAVE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY FACING THE SAME KIND OF ATTACKS THAT MIKE FACED HERE.

AND HE SHOWED WHAT YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU JUST STAND UP AND TELL THE TRUTH AND DO YOUR JOB.

I'M HOPING PEOPLE WATCH HIM.

ONE OF THE THINGS NAT MIKE IS FORTUNATE ABOUT, THAT KNIPPER DID NOT GET THE SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN ARIZONA AND NEVADA AND OTHER PLACE AS ROUND THE COUNTRY.

MIKE DID NOT HAVE A LOT OF CAMPAIGN RESOURCES HIMSELF.

HE WAS BANKING ON PEOPLE KNEW, AS SCOTT SAID, HIS RECORD AS SECRETARY OF STATE AND KNEW THAT KNIPPER AND MARICLE WERE SPEAKING NONSENSE.

THE COUNTY CLERKS WERE GETTING FRUSTRATED.

HE WAS LYING ABOUT THE VOTER REGISTRATION DATABASE, LYING ABOUT THE MACHINES BEING CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET, LYING ABOUT ME, CALLED ME A RUSSIAN SPY.

AND SO... >> WELL, ARE YOU?

[LAUGHTER] (IN RUSSIAN ACCENT) I DON'T KNOW.

>> Renee: SAVE THAT FOR 9:00 BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO NEED THAT.

>> AND THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT OFFICE AND SO MIKE'S WIN DOES SEND A STRONG SIGNAL INSIDE THE PARTY AND, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, I WATCHED WHAT IS THE TERM, WE DON'T CALL IT A DEBATE.

>> Renee: WE CALL IT KENTUCKY TONIGHT.

>> WE HAD A KENTUCKY TONIGHT A COUPLE WEEK AGO WITH THE GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES AND YOU ASKED ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION AND IT REALLY DISAPPOINTED ME WHAT THE ANSWER IS, NOT ALL OF THEM GOT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION BUT THE BEST COULD YOU GET IS THAT JOE BIDEN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT.

DONALD TRUMP LOST.

IT WAS NOT STOLEN.

>> Renee: DOES THEM BOLDEN CAMERON TO DO THE SAME.

>> NO, HE WANTS TRUMP TO CAMPAIGN FOR HIM.

>> INSIDE THE PARTY, WE ARE READY TO MOVE ON AND TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE.

>> Renee: SO TO THAT-- BOB BABBAGE AND THEN AL CROSS.

>> FIRST OF ALL, I HAD AN INTERN >> Renee: WHICH WE ALL RELL KNOW.

>> HIS BACKGROUND CHECK IS STILL VERY GOOD.

HE HAS NO FOREIGN TIES THAT I KNOW OF THAT WOULD BE... MICHAEL ADD ADAMS HAS DONE A TERRIFIC JOB AT SECRETARY OF STATE.

HE HAS A DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER WHO IS A VERY SUBSTANTIAL PERSON BUT ADAMS HAS FAR AND AWAY EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS IN EVERY RESPECT.

HIS SENSE OF HUMOR IS MAGICAL AND HE-- >> Renee: HE'S FUN TO FOLLOW ON TWITTER.

>> HE ANSWERS EVERY ILLEGITIMATE CRITICISM OR ANYBODY WHO TAKES HIM ON.

>> WHAT DEMOCRAT CRITICISM COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE OF MIKE ADAMS OR REPUBLICAN FOR THAT MATTER?

HE HAS EXECUTED THIS OFFICE ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESSLY.

I KNOW HE HAS A SUBSTANTIAL OPPONENT BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT WHO HAS BEEN GOING CRAZY FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SAID ABOUT OUR ELECTIONS AND HERE IS A REPUBLICAN WHO HAS STOOD UP TO THE WHOLE THING, AND NOT ONLY FACED IT DOWN BUT ALSO SCOUTED KENTUCKY'S ELECTION SYSTEM PERFECTLY AND IMPROVED IT, I THINK, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CAMPAIGN-- THERE IS TO RUN AGAINST.

>> PEOPLE CRITICIZING ADAMS BECAUSE HE COOPERATED WITH THE GOVERNOR AND THEY CAME TO AN AGREEMENT ABOUT HOW THE ELECTION COULD RUN WELL AND IT RAN PERFECTLY.

YOU JUST DON'T HAVE A CASE, SCOTT.

I AGREE WITH YOU.

>> I WANT YOU TO CHIME IN HERE MUCH.

FOR BUDDY WHEATLEY WHO RAN UNOPPOSED FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, WHAT DOES HE DO?

>> HE IS A TWO TERM FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE, HAS GREAT NAME I.D.

FROM NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

HE WANTS TO EXPAND EARLY VOTING EVEN MORE THAN WE HAVE IT NOW.

HE WANTS TO INCREASE POLLING HOURS ONE MORE HOUR TO P.M.

WHICH IS ALLOWED UNDER OUR STATE CONSTITUTION, SO, YES, MIKE ADAMS HAS, AND BY THE WAY, AS A DEMOCRAT, I SINCERELY APPRECIATE HIS WILLINGNESS TO GO AFTER SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF HIS OWN PARTY WHO ARE IN ELECTED OFFICE HERE IN KENTUCKY, WHO ARE ELECTION DENIERS, BUT BUDDY IS LOOKING TO EXPAND EVEN MORE ACCESS TO THE POLLS.

THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK, AND I HOPE WE CAN ALL APPRECIATE.

>> BUT HE WILL HAVE TO WORK WITH THE REPUBLICAN SUPER MAJORITY TO DO THAT.

>> HE WILL.

HE WILL.

CONSTITUTIONALLY IT'S ALLOWED TO OPEN THE POLLS UNTIL P.M. THAT'S IN OUR STATE CONSTITUTION.

WE JUST DON'T DO IT.

NOW IT'S UNTIL 6.

HE WILL HAVE TO WORK WITH THEM BUT WORKED WITH THEM FOR FOUR YEARS AND GOT QUITE A BIT DONE, SO I DON'T FORESEE THAT AS A HUGE ROAD BLOCK.

>> WHEATLY WAS THE DEMOCRATIC POINT PERSON ON ELECTION ISSUES AND HE IS FROM NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

LOST REELECTION IN A NARROW RACE IN A DISTRICT RECOP FIGURED.

ADAMS SUPPORTS OPENING THE POLLS UNTIL 7 P.M.

IT'S THE CLERKS AND THE LEGISLATURE THAT DOES NOT AND HE WANTED MORE EARLY VOTING DAYS THAN THE LEGISLATURE APPROVED.

ONE CRITICISM I'VE HEARD AND THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF A RED HERRING BUT I'VE HEARD WHEATLEY SAY THERE SHOULD BE MORE VOTING LOCATIONS AND CHALLENGES WHEN YOU EXPAND AND HAVE EARLY VOTING, PART OF THE WHAT HAPPENS, MORE PEOPLE VOTE EARLY AND YOU DON'T NEED AS MANY AS MANY ELECTION DAY CENTERS ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CAN VOTE ANYWHERE.

THAT'S ONE OF THE ATTACKS I'VE HEARD WHEATLEY LEVEL AGAINST ADAMS.

SCWHRR WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE TOP OF THE TICKET.

ANDY BESHEAR HAS ONCE AGAIN CINCHED THE NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR AND ON THE DEMOCRAT SIDE AND EARLIER, JUST AA FEW MOMENTS AGO HE GAVE HIS VICTORY SPEECH AND WE ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU A PORTION OF THAT.

THE ENTIRE SPEECH IS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE TOMORROW.

BUT HERE IS A PORTION OF IT.

>> WE HAVE OUR LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY.

[ APPLAUSE ] WE HAVE BOTH LOWER INCOME TAXES AND RECORD BUDGET SURPLUSES AND ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE, THE BIGGEST COMPANIES ARE LOOKING AT KENTUCKY, LOOKING AT WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER AND CHOOSING TO BRING INVESTMENTS HERE IN OUR HOME IMROAN BUSINESSES ARE EXPANDING LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T BY ACCIDENT WE BECAME THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PRODUCTION CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[ APPLAUSE ] IT CAME TO BE BY TALKING US UP, SHOWING WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER, TOUTING OUR WORKFORCE AND THE VIBRANCY OF OUR PEOPLE.

BUT EVERYBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE?

EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS RUNNING FOR THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN DOING THE OPPOSITE.

RIGHT NOW SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA, THERE IS A C.E.O.

DECIDING WHERE TO MOVE THEIR BUSINESS AND THEY'RE CONSIDERING KENTUCKY.

LET ME ASK YOU IS SEEING PEOPLE TALK DOWN OUR STATE AND OUR ECONOMY INSULT OUR PEOPLE AND STOKE DIVISION GOING TO HELP THAT NEXT COMPANY CHOOSE KENTUCKY?

>> NO!

>> OF COURSE NOT.

BUT WE KNOW KENTUCKIANS ARE TOUGH, KIND, HARD WORKING PEOPLE.

OF COURSE COMPANIES SHOULD WANT TO MOVE HERE.

THIS IS THE BEST WORKFORCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

>> Renee: THAT'S WAS WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, RIGHT, ECONOMIC WINS, WINS, WINS, ALL HE DOES IS WIN, WIN, WIN.

>> AND AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENT.

AL MADE THE COMMENT WHEN HE WAS BRAGGING ABOUT THE SURPLUS, THIS CURRENT BUDGET IS ABSOLUTELY THE LEGISLATURE'S BUDGET.

BUT WHEN YOU ARE THE GOVERNOR, YOU CLAIM THINGS LIKE THAT.

THAT'S JUST THE REALITY.

IF THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR HE WOULD SAY THE SAME THING.

>> ONE PHASE OF THE TAX DECREASE.

PROBABLY SO HE COULD HELP CLAIM CREDIT FOR IT.

>> HE VOTED... >> Renee: AFTER HE VETOED THE FIRST ONE, THE ORIGINAL TAX CUT PROPOSAL.

>> AND THE EXCUSE HE GAVE TO BE FAIR, WASSINGS INFLATION.

>> INTUITIVE.

>> Renee: PERIOD.

>> I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU MORE OF YOUR MONEY TO SPEND ON THE INFLATED PRICES OF BIDEN.

>> Renee: IS THAT ENOUGH TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY THAT YOU DIDN'T HELP BUILD ALONE?

>> NO, NOT ENOUGH.

I THINK HE WILL-- SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE HAS BEEN DEALT A TOUGH HAND WITH THE BIG TRAGEDIES, RIGHT?

COVID, THE FLOODING AND THE TORNADOES.

AND IT'S ALLOWED HIM TO BE A UNIFYING FORCE IN A GOVERNOR.

WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT, SO ONE OF THE CHALLENGES FOR THE REPUBLICANS IS TO MINIMIZE THAT RECORD BUT IT'S ALLOWED HIM TO STEP ABOVE.

IF YOU LOOK AT A STATE WHERE A GOVERNOR OF ONE PARTY GOVERNS SUCCESSFULLY AND GETS RE-ELECTED, A STATE THAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF POLITICS.

THINK MARYLAND TO MASSACHUSETTS UNTIL THE LAST ELECTION THINK LOUISIANA RIGHT NOW.

THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WIN AND RE-ELECTED BECAUSE IF VOTERS ABOUT GO TO THE POLL AND THINK I'M VOTING FOR DEMOCRAT ANDY BESHEAR.

HE DOESN'T WANT THAT MANY HE WANTS THEM TO GO IN TO THE POLLS AND VOTE GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR.

IF THEY VOTE DEMOCRAT ANDY BESHEAR OR DEMOCRAT CAMERON, CAMERON WILL DO BETTER.

>> THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE SHOOTING FOR THIS FALL IN THIS TOP OF THE TICKET.

NOW WHAT ANDY BESHEAR HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO IS SHED HIS PARTICIPATE LABEL.

HE WANTS-- PARTY LABEL.

HE WANTS EVERYONE TO BELIEVE HE IS A NON-PARTISAN TECHNO CRAT WHO HANDS OUT HUGS AND CASES OF WATER WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TO FIND THE ISSUES THAT REMIND PEOPLE THAT HE IS JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER LIBERAL DEMOCRAT THAT YOU DISLIKE OR DISTRUST.

I HAVE NO IDEA THAT THAT CAMPAIGN WILL BE WAGED MUCH REMEMBER, HE GOT ELECTED IN 2019 AND THE RACE WAS ALL ABOUT MATT BEVIN AND HOW VIRTUALLY NOBODY LIKED HIM.

THAT WAS THE RACE.

IN THIS CASE, CAMERON, VERY LIKEABLE GUY, REST OF THE TICKET PERFECTLY FINE.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DEBATE ON ISSUES.

SOME OF IT IS GOING TO BE THE ECONOMY BUT I HAVE A SUSPICION SOME OF IT IS GOING TO BE VALUES AND SOME OF THE THINGS HE HAS VETOED AND SOME OF THE STATEMENTS HE HAS MADE OCCULTER ISSUES WHERE HE IS WAY OUTSIDE THE MAIN TREATMENT OF THE REST OF THE STATE AND I THINK THE REPUBLICANS ARE FINALLY GOING TO GET THEIR SHOT AT A CLEAN RACE WITH BEVIN THEY NEVER HAD IT BECAUSE NO ONE COULD EVER GET OVER THE HUMP OF JUST-- HE ALMOST LOST HIS OWN PRIMARY IN 2019 TO A GUY WHO GOT PINCHED, WHO IS IN JAIL.

AND SO WE HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT DYNAMIC.

THE STATE HAS GOTTEN RED ARE, VOTER REGISTRATION HAS FLOWED.

CAM ROP IS SHOWING MOMENTUM AND THE ISSUE DEBATE WE DIDN'T HAVE IN 2019 IS GOING TO BE HALF.

>> Renee: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE GOVERNOR WANTS TO SAY I'M GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR NOT DEMOCRATIC ANDY BESHEAR.

>> HE IS THE GOVERNOR.

HE IS THE GOVERNOR FOR ALL KENTUCKIANS, NOT JUST DEMOCRATS.

HE HAS SHOWN THAT HE PUT ASIDE HIS OWN POLITICAL AMBITIONS AND GET UP AND TALK VERY HONESTLY, VERY OPENLY IS TO EVERY KENTUCKIAN AND MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT ARE RIGHT, NOT LEFT OR RIGHT, BUT THAT ARE RIGHT AND LITERALLY ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH.

I THINK GIVEN THAT, MOST PEOPLE WOULD NEVER WANT TO BE IN THAT POSITION MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING IS A VERY REAL THING FOR SOMEONE TO ATTACK WHAT HE DID, ESPECIALLY DURING COVID IS QUITE FRANKLY WEAK MINDED AND WEAK BACKBONED AND ALSO TO SAY THAT HE IS A CRAZY LISH IS NOT ACCURATE.

>> WELL, THE CULTURE WARS WE KNOW ARE GOING TO BE A PART OF THE CAMPAIGN GOING FORWARD BECAUSE HE VETOED THE SWEEPING ANTI-TRANS MEASURES SENATE BILL 150, THE TRANSGENDER SPORTS MEASURE.

THAT ISSUE ALONE IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH.

>> THAT'S AN ISSUE THAT, BASED ON DATA DOESN'T AFFECT THAT MANY KENTUCKIANS.

IT'S A HOT TOPIC BUT NOT SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE FEELING IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A CREATIVE ISSUE BECAUSE I'M A MULTISTATE LOBBYISTS AND I SEE IT IN EVERY ONE OF MY STATES F. THEY WANT TO ATTACK HIM ON THE ISSUES THEY NEED TO BE CREATIVE AND FIND SOMETHING HE HAS ACTUALLY SAID OR DONE, NOT SOMETHING THAT WINS IN EVERY OTHER STATE.

>> THE ISSUE IS THE LINKAGE TO BESHEAR TO THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

BECAUSE WHAT HE HAS, I THINK SUCCESSFULLY DONE IS TRY TO SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM ALL THE OTHER NATIONAL DEMOCRATS THAT KENTUCKIANS HAVE COME TO REJECT.

BUT HE HAS TAKEN POSITIONS THAT ARE AS LIBERAL OR MORE LIBERAL THAN MOST OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATS HERE THAT ARE OUT OF FAVOR IN KENTUCKY.

AND THAT'S REALLY NEVER BEEN LINKED.

THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF A CAMPAIGN.

SO THE ISSUES MAY NOT EFFECT EVERY SINGLE PERSON.

BUT IN A NATIONALIZED ENVIRONMENT, WHICH WE CURRENTLY LIVE IN, AND YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BENCHMARKS, RIGHT?

WHO IS THIS PERSON LIKE?

AND WHO DO THEY IDENTIFY WITH?

TO IDENTIFY WITH THOSE ISSUES IS TO IDENTIFY WITH THE MORE LIBERAL ELEMENTS OF HIS PARTY AND CAMERON BASICALLY IDENTIFIES AS, YOU KNOW, I THINK HE IS GOING TO BE THOUGHT OF AS A MAIN TREEL REPUBLICAN IF THIS STATE.

AND SO AGAIN, I JUST GO BACK TO THE SET.

IF YOU CAN GO GO IT THIS THING TO GENERIC REPUBLICAN AND GENERIC DEMOCRAT.

>> HE IS MORE IDENTIFIED AS DONALD TRUMP'S GUY, SCOTT AND THAT IS THE X FACTOR.

WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TRUMP IS GOING TO STAND ON THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER.

HE COULD BE INDICTED; YOU KNOW,.

>> Renee: THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO AFFECT HIS POPULARITY IN KENTUCKY, DOES IT.

>> CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF THE STATE TO BE SUPPORTED BY SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN FOUND BY A JURY TO BE A SEXUAL ABUSER AND FOUND BY A JURY TO BE RUNNING A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CRIMINAL.

AND THE JANUARY 6 DOCUMENTS.

THERE IS A LOT OF DP FACTOR.

>> Renee: BUT HE IS STILL POLLING VERY WELL IN KENTUCKY.

>> SURE HE IS AMONG PEOPLE-- THIS IS A TRUMP STATE.

>> YEAH, HE POLLS WELL BECAUSE HE IS POPULAR IN KENTUCKY.

I'M NOT A BIG TRUMP GUY, BUT HE DOES POLL-- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STRUCK ME WHEN THE BESHEAR CAMPAIGN RIPPED OFF THE 2003 REPUBLICAN TEAM KENTUCKY.

I MEAN 20 YEARS AGO THIS WAS THE TOTAL REVERSE.

WE DIDN'T WANTED TO BE KNOWN AS THE REPUBLICANS.

WE WANTED, WHEN WE WERE RUNNING IN 2003, IF YOU CALLED REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTER OF KENTUCKY INSTEAD OF RPK, THEY WOULD SAY TEAM KENTUCKY.

WE NEVER SAID WE WERE REPUBLICANS BECAUSE WE WERE THE MINORITY PARTY AND WE DIDN'T WANT ALL THE DEMOCRATS TO SAY I CAN'T, YOU KNOW, MY GRANDADDY WOULD ROLL OVER IN THE GRAVE IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN.

NOW IT'S THE REVERSE.

AND SO ANDY BESHEAR HAS DONE A GOOD JOB POSITIONINGS HIMSELF AWAY BY USING TEAM KENTUCKY AND OTHER THINGS.

THE QUESTION BECOMES IN EASTERN KENTUCKY, FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE THE GOVERNOR IS PRETTY POPULAR.

THAT AREA HAS BEEN TRENDING REPUBLICAN.

I MEAN IT'S AMAZING THE NUMBER OF LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS THAT ARE REPUBLICANS.

THEY SWITCHED PARTIES, THEY RETIRED.

THOSE VOTERS WHO ELECTED A LOT OF REPUBLICANS LAST YEAR ELECTED A LOT OF THEM TO THE LEGISLATURE , BEAT ANGIE HATTON IN THAT RACE AND ALMOST BEAT THE FINAL REMAINING STATE REP LAST YEAR IN-- ASHLEY: SO SWEEPING ALL THOSE RACES, WILL THOSE FOLKS COME BACK TO REPUBLICAN OR WILL THEY STICK WITH BESHEAR?

IF YOU PLAY THE VALUES CARD, YOU RUN THE RISK IN THE SUBURBS OF LOUISVILLE, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY MAYBE LOSING SOME VOTES AS A REPUBLICAN AS THOSE AREAS HAVE BECOME THE BATTLE GROUND.

THAT'S WHERE I THINK EARLIER WE TALKED ABOUT THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ASPECTS OF THIS RACE.

THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS FATE NATING OUR SUBURB AN AREAS WHERE BEVIN LOST THE RA IS IN 2019, THOSE ARE THE SWING VOTERS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

IN PENNSYLVANIA, THAT'S WHERE BIDEN WON WAS THE SUBURBS OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE SUBURBS OF PITTSBURGH.

CAN CAMERON RECAPTURE SOME OF THE VOTES, RECAPTURE, GET THOSE EASTERN KENTUCKY FOLKS BACK AND CAN HE DO BOTH?

IF HE DOES, HE CAN WIN.

>> Renee: WERE YOU GOING TO SAY SOMETHING BEFORE I TOSS TO TATE.

>> TO AL'S POINT GENERAL █CAMERO SEEMING TO BE TRUMP'S GUY, TO ALL THE REASONS ABOUT WHY TRUMP GOES AGAINST LAW AND ORDER, GENERAL CAMERON'S RESPONSE TO BE WELL THOSE LAWSUITS WILL PLAY OUT IN COURT.

THAT'S A GREAT ATTORNEY'S RESPONSE.

IF I WANT SOMEBODY TO CO-SIGN THEIR NAME ON A PUBLIC PLATFORM WITH MINE, I'M GOING TO NEED A LITTLE BETTER RESPONSE THAN ALL THOSE ISSUES WILL PLAY OUT IN COURT.

>> I JUST THINK, YOU TWO THINGS ANDY BESHEAR ROLLING INTO THE ELECTION AS BIDEN'S GUY VERSUS CAMERA RON IF YOU WANT TO BELITTLE HIM AND SAY HE IS ONLY TRUMP'S GUY.

I KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2024 IN THIS STATE.

>> I THINK WE ALL DO.

I THINK TO-- BUT I THINK A.

THAT DEBATE IS FINE.

BUT B, DANIEL CAMERON IS HIS OWN MAN.

YOU CAN CALL HIM DONALD TRUMP'S GUY AND HE GOT THE ENDORSEMENT BUT ONE THING ABOUT HIM NO ONE HAS EVER UNDERSTOOD IS THE BRIDGE BUILDER HE AS CROSS SEVERAL WINGS.

HE HAD SOME LIBERTY PEOPLE POLLING FOR HIM IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

HE HAD TRUMP.

HE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH MITCH McCONNELL.

AND ONE OF THE FOLLIES OF ATTACKING HIM IN THIS RACE ALUNNED WITH McCONNELL, THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A REPUBLICAN OR TWO OUT THERE WHO SAID MAYBE WE NEED A NOMINEE THAT CAN BRING THE WHOLE, EVERY CORNER OF THE PARTY TOGETHER.

I WOULD NOT-- BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHT.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT POCKETS THAT HAVE GONE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS BUT HE MIGHT JUST BE THE GUY WHO CAN BRING IT TOGETHER.

>> I THINK HE PROBABLY IS.

WHEN HOOEY WAS ASKED WHY HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT MITCH McCONNELL, HE SAID HE HAD TO PUT TOGETHER A COALITION THAT CAN BEAT ANDY BESHEAR AND MITCH McCONNELL IS NOT POPULAR AMONG REPUBLICANS THESE DAYS.

HE KNOWS THE REALITY OF THAT.

DANIEL CAMERON RAN A McCONNELL-ESQUE CAMPAIGN.

HE FOCUSED ON A FEW THINGS AND WASN'T RELUCTANT TO BE REPETITIVE.

HE DID NOT FEEL OBLIGED TO ANSWER REPORTERS QUESTIONS.

AND HE, I THINK, LEARNED A LOT FROM MITCH McCONNELL AND HIS PEOPLE OF WHICH YOU ARE ONE.

THAT WILL SERVE HIM WELL IN THE GENERAL ELECTION CRAFT SPENT HER WAY TO A CLOSE SECOND BUT THEY ALL HAD A VERY SIMPLE MESSAGE.

HE HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY DONALD TRUMP AND HE GOT THE BACKING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.

THEY CALLED INTO QUESTION CRAFT'S, YOU KNOW, ATTACKS AND WHY SHE WAS MAKING THEM AND HER TENUOUS CONNECTIONS TO TRUMP.

BUT THE WHOLE MESSAGE WAS TRUMP LIKES HIM AND THE COPS LIKE HIM.

IT WAS SIMPLE.

THEY DIDN'T OVER COMPLICATE IT.

THEY DIDN'T RUN 27 VECTORS OF THIS AND THAT.

THEY JUST FOUND SOMETHING THAT IN A 12 PERSON RACE WITH NO RUNOFF, THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.

AND SO McCONNELL OFTEN SAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD HE EVER SAID IN POLITICS IS FOCUS.

AND DANIEL CAMERON FOCUSED AND NOW HE IS GOING TO BE THE NOMINEE AND HE IS STILL SITTING AT 46% WITH OVER HALF THE VOTES COUNT.

HE IS OUTKICKING THE POLLING.

>> Renee: ABOUT OF WE GO ANY FURTHER, WE WANT TO SHOW YOU ABINTERVIEW THAT CHIP POLLSTON DID WITH GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR JUST MOMENTS AGO.

HERE IS A PORTION OF THAT.

>> THANKS RENEE.

HERE WITH GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PRIMARY WIN TONIGHT I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD THE NEWS BUT WAIL WERE YOU TALKING AT ABOUT QUARTER AFTER 7 P.M. DANIEL CAMERON WAS DECLARED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TO BE THE WINNER OF THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

>> WHEN YOU ARE THE GOVERNOR OF A PANDEMIC, NATURAL DISASTERS, YOU DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHO YOUR OPPONENT IS GOING TO BE.

THIS RACE IS ABOUT OUR FAMILIES.

IT'S ABOUT THE GOOD JOBS THAT PROVIDE MORE SECURITY AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.

IT'S ABOUT THE EXPANSION OF HEALTHCARE WHERE WE ARE BUILDING THE FIRST HOSPITAL IN THE WEST END OF LOUISVILLE IN 150 YEARS AND NEW AUTISM CENTER IN PRESTONSBURG.

ABOUT THE INVESTMENTS IN PUBLIC SAFETY, THE LARGEST RAISES EVER FOR OUR STATE POLICE.

AND IT'S ABOUT SOMEONE WHO TRULY BELIEVES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND IS WILLING TO CHAMPION OUR EDUCATORS.

THAT'S WHAT THE RACE IS ABOUT.

>> LET ME ASK YOU THIS.

BACK IN MARCH THERE WAS AN ONLINE ARTICLE FROMY SQUIRE ARTICLE THAT ANDY BESHEAR FACES A CAKE WALK OF AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

DO YOU FEEL THAT WAY.

>> NO ELECTION OR REELECTION IS A CAKE WALK AND IT SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT ME OR ANY OF MY OPPONENTS.

IT SHOULD BE ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY.

TEASE ARE JOBS YOU HAVE TO EARN.

YOU HAVE TO KEEP PEOPLE'S FAITH AND HAVE YOU TO KEEP SHOWING UP AND WORKING HARD.

THIS IS ABOUT COMING INTO THE OFFICE EVERY DAY TO FIGHT FOR THE INCHES THAT BECOME THE FEET, 25 BECOME THE YARDS OF PROGRESS.

IT'S HOW WE HAVE SEEN THE FIRST REDUCTION IN OVERDOSE DEATH IS THIS LAST YEAR SINCE 2018.

THAT'S ABOUT SEIZING A RECORD AMOUNT OF FENTANYL INCREASING OUR TREATMENT BEDS BY 50% AND SENDING NATIONAL GUARD TO SECURE OUR BORDERS.

THAT'S THE HARD WORK WE DO EVERY DAY WHEREBY WE START SEEING REAL SUCCESS.

>> GOVERNOR, FROM YOUR WEBSITE IT SAYS THAT YOU ARE TOUTING THE HIGHEST AND SECOND HIGHEST REVENUE SURPLUSES IN THE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY THANKS TO STRONG FISCAL MANAGE MANY AND A HOT RECORD BREAKING ECONOMY DURING YOUR ADMINISTRATION.

IS IT SAFE TO SAY THAT IS GOING TO BE THE TENT POLE OF YOUR CAMPAIGN MOVING FORWARD?

>> WE ARE COMING OFF OUR BEST TWO YEARS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EVER.

MORE JOBS THAN EVER BEFORE AND SOME OF THE HIGHEST WAGES WE'VE EVER SEEN.

WE ARE BUILDING THE BIGGEST BATTERY PLANT ON PLANET EARTH, CLEANEST GREENING RECYCLE PAPER MILL, STEEL, ALUMINUM.

ALL THINGS COMING ALL OVER KENTUCKY.

I GET UP EVERY DAY TO TRY TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR OUR FAMILIES BUT TO PROVIDE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR KIDS LISTEN, I WANT TO BE THE GOVERNOR THAT TURNS OUR BRAIN DRAIN INTO A BRAIN GAIN WHERE WE NEVER LOSE A TALENTED YOUNG PERSON TO ANOTHER STATE AGAIN.

AND OTHER STATES TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE START MOVING HERE.

THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD WANT TO DO THESE JOBS.

>> TRUMP CARRY KENTUCKY BY 26 POINTS IN 2020.

HOWRN OF A FACTOR HOUSING PROJECT DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE IN THE RACE.

>> IT IS WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE HOUSES OF EACH AND EVERY KENTUCKIAN.

PEOPLE KNOW HOUSING PROJECT PEOPLE WANT A GOVERNOR THAT GETS THINGS DONE AND HAS REAL RESULTS.

THAT DOESN'T JUST SHOW UP FOR THE PICTURE BUT SHOWS UP FOR THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY.

>> GOVERNOR, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PRIMARY WIN TONIGHT.

WE WILL SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER.

>> THANK YOU, THIS WAS A LITTLE EARLIER THAN MY LAST ONE.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

THE CUSTODIES WON'T BE UP SO LATE.

>> CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT.

RENEE, BACK TO YOU.

>> Renee: THANK YOU, CHIP.

JOINING US BY SKYPE IVY BESHEAR A DAVID HOP FELLOWSHIP WITH THE U.K. INSTITUTE FOR WORLD JOURNALISM AND COMMUNITY ISSUES, HER COLLEAGUE, AL CROSS, IS ON OUR PANEL TONIGHT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING THE RACE IN APPALACHIAN COUNTY SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY IN PARTICULAR.

TELL US WHAT YOU SAW IN THE WEEKS AND DAYS LEADING UP TO THE RACE AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE AREA TODAY AND YOU WERE KIND OF MONITORING THE VOTER PARTICIPATION MUCH WHAT DID YOU SEE?

>> YES, I WAS TRAVELING ACROSS SOME EASTERN KENTUCKY COUNTIES TODAY.

WHAT I SAW IS THAT TURNOUT WAS INCREDIBLY LOW.

A COUPLE OF THE CLERKS THAT I TALKED TO, THE COUNTY CLERKS SAID THIS IS PRETTY TYPICAL FOR PRIMARIES, BUT PEOPLE WANT THE OWRN OUT FOR FEDERAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS BUT TUSHTD WAS REALLY LOW.

UP WITH POLLING PLACE IN PERRY COUNTY THAT I SPOKE WITH AT 5:30 ONLY HAD TWO 246 VOTERS.

AND PREVIOUS ELECTION THEY HAD 900.

IN LESLIE COUNTY BY 3 P.M., THERE WERE ONLY 00 PEOPLE-- ONLY 700 PEOPLE HAD VOTED OUT OF 7500 PEOPLE.

>> SO FOR THOSE WHO DID SHOW UP, DID THEY TELL YOU AND DID YOU GET A SENSE OF WHAT THEY WERE MOTIVATED BY AND WHO MATE VAITED THEM?

-- WHO MOTIVATED THEM?

>> FOR THE VOTERS DIFFICULT SPEAK TO, THEY WERE MOTOR MOTIVATED TO COME OUT AND VOTE FOR ANDY BESHEAR.

SOME VOTERS WHO ARE REGISTERED REPUBLICANS SAID THEY WERE EITHER NOT VOTING IN THIS RACE OR VOTING FOR DANIEL CAMERON IN THIS RACE BUT WERE GOING DO VOTE FOR BESHEAR IN NOVEMBER.

THE REASONS FOR THAT WERE MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS THAT BESHEAR HAS HERALDED IN EASTERN KENTUCKY COUNTIES SINCE THE INTOED.

>> Renee: EVEN THOUGH THEY MIGHT HAVE VOTED FOR DANIEL CAMERON TODAY, THEY'RE GOING TO FLIP OR AT THIS TIME, RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEY ARE GOING TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR ANDY BESHEAR COME NOVEMBER.

A LOT CAN HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND THEN.

CONSIDERING SOME OF THE STORIES THAT HAVE EMERGED, IVY ABOUT SOME OF THE BOTCHED CLEANUP EFFORTS THERE, IS THAT HAVING A PERSUASIVE ELEMENT AT ALL, OR ARE THOSE PEOPLE FOLLOWING THOSE REPORTS?

>> I DID NOT GET A SENSE THAT THAT WAS AFFECTING PEOPLE'S OPINIONS AT ALL OR THEIR INTENTIONS TO VOTE AT ALL.

THEY WERE ALL VERY SUPPORTIVE OF BESHEAR FOR WAS HE HAS DONE IN THE REGION AND HOW HE HAS SHOWED UP.

MOSTLY WHAT I WAS HEARING IS THAT PEOPLE IN EASTERN KENTUCKY ARE GOING TO BE SUPPORTING GREER FOR REELECTION BECAUSE HE HAS SUPPORTED EASTERN KENTUCKY IN THEIR WORDS.

>> Renee: THANK YOU, IVY FOR GIVING US A COUPLE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.

I KNOW AL CROSS APPRECIATES YOUR WORK AS WELL.

HE SAYS HELLO.

>> HI, AL.

>> Renee: THANK YOU, IVY.

SO MAX WEISS WE UNDERSTAND IS AT THE PODIUM AT CRAFT ELECTION HEADQUARTERS BUT WE ARE NOT READY TO GO TO HIM, CORRECT?

SO THIS IS HIM RIGHT NOW.

LET'S LISTEN IN.

>> TO THE PEOPLE HOSTING FUNDRAISERS, FOR THOSE GETTING PEOPLE TO THE POLLS AND EVERYTHING THAT SO MANY OF YOU ALL DID FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US ON THIS TICKETED I WANT TO THANK MY WIFE AND THANK MY KIDS BECAUSE CAMPAIGNING IS VERY HARD AND A STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN IS EVEN HARDER.

BUT THEY HAVE BEEN WITH ME EVERY STEP OF THE WAY AND I THINK I SPEAK FOR THEM THAT WE THANK JOE AND KELLY CRAFT FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE HAD.

AND WHILE WE MAY BE DISAPPOINTED IN THE RESULTS,LY SAY THE WORK ETHIC THAT I PERSONALLY SAW KELLY CRAFT HAVE ON THIS CAMPAIGN EXCEEDED EVERYONE'S EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE OF THE GRIT AND THE WORK ETHIC THAT SHE DISPLAYED, OF GETTING DOWN AT A COMPASSIONATE LEVEL OF TALKING TO VOTERS, CONNECTING TO PEOPLE ON HER KITCHEN TABLE TOUR.

AND I WISH SOMETIMES I HAD THE MEDIA TRAVELING WITH US BEHIND THE SCENES FOR A WEEK.

WHEN WE WOULD GO INTO I A RESTAURANT, SHE WOULD NEVER FORGET TO THANK THE WORKERS BACK IN THE KITCHEN AT EVERY STOP SHE MADE.

THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PUTTING TOGETHER UTENSILS IN THE NAPKINS, SHE THANKED EVERY SINGLE PERSON.

AND THAT'S TRUE CHARACTER WHEN PEOPLE AREN'T WATCHING, WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE NOT ON, YOU SEE THE REAL PERSON.

AND I SAW THE REAL KELLY CRAFT.

AND IT IS WITH MY GREAT HONOR THAT I INTRODUCE YOU TO YOU MY FRIEND AND HER FAMILY AMBASSADOR KELLY CRAFT.

[ APPLAUSE ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Renee: WHILE WE ARE WAITING FOR AMBASSADOR CRAFT TO TAKE THE STAGE RIGHT NOW, WE ARE GOING TO WATCH A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE KNOW THERE WILL BE PLATFORM SPEAKING.

-- SPEAKING.

>> KELLY CRAFT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT REPUBLICANS IN KENTUCKY FOR A LOT OF YEARS.

HUGE DONOR TO VIRTUALLY EVERY REPUBLICAN CAUSE.

AND ALTHOUGH IT DIDN'T WORK OUT FOR HER TONIGHT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, SHE DID A LOT OF STUFF FOR PEOPLE DATING ALL THE WAY BACK TO GEORGE W. BUSH MITT ROMNEY, MITCH McCONNELL, DONALD TRUMP, I MEAN SHE HAS BEEN A STALWART REPUBLICAN.

SO, YOU SNOW, IN EVERY CAMPAIGN, ONLY ONE WINNER AND SHE IS NOT GOING TO BE IT TONIGHT BUT BOATED SHE AND RYAN QUARLES, I THINK, FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THEY'RE GOING TO COME UP SHORT BUT THEY'RE TWO CREDITS TO THE PARTY AND RAN PROFESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS.

>> KELLY HAS BEEN A BIG FIGURE FOR 20 YEARS.

I REMEMBER SHE HELPED ME OUT AND HOSTED A COUPLE EVENTS AT HER HOUSE.

THIS IS TOUGH.

I'VE LOST PRIMARIES.

BOB, WE'VE LOST PRIMARIES.

IT'S NOT FUN.

>> Renee: SO WE ARE LISTENING TO TAKE HER IN RIGHT NOW AND RIGHT NOW HERE IS KELLY CRAFT.

>> IT REALLY MEANS SO MUCH THAT YOU SHOWED UP, DAY AFTER DAY, MADE SACRIFICES AND SUPPORTED US NO MATTER WHAT.

AND I HAVE BEEN HUMBLED BY THIS SUPPORT.

AND I BANT TO SAY A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MY FAMILY ESPECIALLY TO MY HUSBAND JOE.

[ APPLAUSE ] UNDERSTAND TO MY BROTHER AND MY SISTER AND THEIR SPOUSES THAT ARE HERE THIS EEK AND I-- THIS EVENING AND MY NEPHEW WILL, AND MY GRANDSON, MY FAVORITE GRANDSON, LET ME TELL YOU MY FAVORITE RIGHT HERE.

[ APPLAUSE ] AND THANK YOU TO THE MOST INCREDIBLE RUNNING MATE THAT ANY CANDIDATE COULD POSSIBLY WISH FOR, A MAN OF WORK ETHIC, A MAN OF GOD; A WIFE THAT ITSELF SUCH A STRONG SUPPORTER WITH HER OWN CAREER.

I MEAN JUST LOOK AT THIS FAMILY.

RIGHT?

WHAT A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

[ APPLAUSE ] WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT I AM DISAPPOINTED THIS EVENING, WE HAVE SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE.

I KNOW THAT OUR MOVEMENT HAS HAD LASTING IMPRESSIONS ON KENTUCKIANS ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH.

AND THE KENTUCKIANS THAT I'VE MET HAVE MADE A LASTING FOREVER IMPACT ON ME.

I WOULD RATHER BE IN THIS ROOM TONIGHT THAN ANY OTHER ROOM WITH A DIFFERENT RESULT.

YOU HAVE CHALLENGED ME YOU HAVE GIVEN ME YOUR TRUST AND CONFIDENCE AND I WILL NEVER TAKE THIS FOR GRANTED.

WE, WE ALL LEFT IT ALL ON THE TABLE I HAVE LOOKED INTO THE EYES OF HARD WORKING EXTRAORDINARY, WELCOMING CITIZENS OF OUR STRONG STATE YOU WELCOMED ME INTO YOUR HOMES, OFFERED ME A SEAT AT YOUR TABLE AND ENTRUSTED ME WITH YOUR ASPIRATIONS, YOUR DREAMS AND YOUR HEART ACHE I MAY HAVE ARRIVED AS A STRANGER TO MANY, BUT I LEFT AS YOUR FRIEND.

[ APPLAUSE ] I SEE A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND A WORLD OF POTENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS ACROSS THE BLUEGRASS.

AND I'M HOPEFUL THAT EACH AND EVERY CHILD AND GRANDCHILD IN KENTUCKY WILL HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO ACHIEVE THEIR WILDEST DREAMS THAT'S WHY I WAS RUNNING, FOR OUR CHILDREN AND FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN'S FUTURE AND WHEN I GOT INTO THIS RACE, I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE TOUGH BUT THIS IS A JOB THAT NEED TO BE DONE.

AND MY LOVE FOR KENTUCKY IS STRONG AND EVERLASTING.

AND WHILE I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THOUSANDS OF KENTUCKIANS I'VE MET THIS CAMPAIGN HAS ALSO HAD ITS TOUGH MOTORS.

I KNEW WE WOULD BE ATTACKED BY DEMOCRATS.

BUT I NEVER, IN A MILLION YEARS THOUGHT THAT THE ATTACK WOULD COME FROM MY OPPONENTS.

TO MY FAMILY.

I GUESS IF YOU ARE A POLITICIAN, YOU ARE USED TO THAT.

BUT I'VE ALWAYS TRIED TO BELIEVE THE BEST IN OTHERS, EVEN WHEN THEY ACT WITH HATE IN THEIR HEARTS.

SO THANK YOU ALL, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR STANDING WITH JOE AND ME AND OUR FAMILY AND THE WEISS FAMILY.

IT HAS BEEN MY DAILY DEVOTION, A PLACE OF CONNECTION TO HAVE SAT AND PRAYED AT OVER 100 TABLES AND HAD THOUSANDS OF ONE ON ONE CONVERSATIONS WITH WHAT EACH OF YOU REPRESENT IN THIS ROOM AND WITHIN THE FAMILIES IN KENTUCKY, I KNOW WE ARE GOD IS.

I MET HIM AT YOUR TABLE WE MET HIM TOGETHER AND HE SIGNED ON US TOGETHER IT HAS NOT BEEN A CAMPAIGN.

THIS HAS BEEN A REVIVAL AND I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WITH EACH OF YOU, THE GIFT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME BEARS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY YOUR VOICE, TO CARRY THE THOUSANDS OF KENTUCKIANS I'VE SAT ACROSS THE TABLE AS MY GUIDE, AS MY COMPASS FOR THE DIRECTION OF OUR STATE.

AND WHILE I'M DISAPPOINTED IN TONIGHT'S RESULTS, WE MUST NOW COME TOGETHER, U NOTED AS ONE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO DEFEAT ANDY BESHEAR IN NOVEMBER.

>> Renee: YOU JUST HEARD KELLY CRAFT WITH HER CONCESSION SPEECH AND WE WILL HAVE THE ENTIRETY ON THE WEBSITE TOMORROW.

SHE MADE A PIVOTAL STATEMENT AT THE END UNIFYING BEHIND THE FOIM, ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON AND THAT'S WAS WE WERE WAITING TO HEAR, TREY GRAYSON, RIGHT?

>> I REMEMBER RUNNING IN 2010, MY PRIMARY WAS PRETTY DIVISIVE AND THE PARTY WAS DIVIDED AND I TALKED TO SENATOR McCONNELL WHAT DO YOU SAY WIN OR LOSE.

HE SAID THE REALITY IS THAT THE SPEECHES ARE SIMILAR.

YOU THANK YOUR PEOPLE, REPEAT YOUR MESSAGE AND YOU TRY TO BRING THE PARTY TOGETHER.

IF YOU ARE THE LOSING CANDIDATE, YOU NEED TO DO WHAT AMBASSADOR CRAFT DID, AND PIVOT AND SAY TO YOUR SUPPORTERS, YOU SHOULD SUPPORT OUR PARTY'S NOMINEE.

AND IF YOU ARE THE WINNER, YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO REACH OUT WITH THE OLIVE BRANCH AND SAY COME TOGETHER.

WE HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN DIFFERENCES.

BUT IT'S AN EMOTIONAL NIGHT.

SHE BROKE DOWN A COUPLE OF TIMES.

IT'S TOUGH.

>> Renee: SHE SAID IT'S NOT A CAMPAIGN BUT A VE VIEFL-- REVIVAL BUT SHE HAD SOME OTHER COMMENTS THOUGH THAT PERHAPS... >> A LITTLE BIT OF A JAB ON, YOU I NEVER IMAGINED PEOPLE WOULD GO AFTER MY FAMILY IN A PRIMARY.

HIVE LIFE IT'S AN ELECTION.

ESPECIALLY IN A PRIMARY WHERE ON THE ISSUES THESE CANDIDATES WERE ALL PRETTY SIMILAR.

THEY HAD SIMILAR VIEWS.

THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD DIFFERENT EMPHASIS, TALKED IN DIFFERENT WAYS BUT ON THE ISSUES THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF DISAGREEMENT SO THAT MEANS YOU ARE GOING TO CAMPAIGN ON PERSONALITY, EXPERIENCE, MAYBE THINGS DID YOU IN YOUR PAST OR ON THINGS MAYBE TAKING POSITIONS OUT OF CONTEXT.

IN SOME RESPECTS, PRIMARY ATTACKS BECAUSE IT'S IN THE FAMILY, IT IS JUST HARDER.

IT HITS HARDER AND THAT IS JUST THE REALITY.

>> Renee: SHE SAID SHE IS GOING TO BE BEHIND THE NOMINEE.

SO DOES THAT MEAN SHE WILL BE AT THE UNITY RALLY ON SATURDAY AND WILL SHE APPEAR WITH HIM AND GO OUT WITH HIM AND DO ALL THE THINGS OR COULD SHE POTENTIALLY BE RUNNING MATE MATERIAL.

>> I DON'T THINK SO.

HE WAS ANSWERING THAT ONE.

SHE WILL BE AT THE RALLY BUT WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT THERE ATTACKS ON HER AND HER FAMILY THE BACK AND FORTH SHE HAD WITH CAMERON ABOUT EXPWROA CRAFT WHO LET IT BE UNDERSTOOD IS THE MONEY BEHIND THIS CAMPAIGN I THOUGHT IT WAS TELLING THAT MAKES WELL SAID WE THANK JOE AND CALIFORNIAY CRAFT FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RUN WITH THEM.

IF SHE HAD FINISHED A STRONG SECOND SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN APPEALING RUNNING MATE FOR CAMERON.

PARTLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THAT MONEY.

THEY WOULD PUT IT IN THE CAMPAIGN.

BUT NOW THAT SHE IS RUNNING THIRD, AND IS PROBABLY GOING TO REMAIN THERE THERE I DON'T THINK THERE IS MUCH PERCENTAGE IN PUTTING HER ON THE TICKET IT SEEMS PRETTIES CLEAR RYAN QUARLES IS THE BEST CHANCE FOR CAMERON AS A RUNNING MATE, SOMETHING HE HAS TO DO BY AUGUS.

>> Renee: BOB, QUICKLY.

>> YES MA'AM, YOU COULD CONCLUDE THAT CANDIDATES WHO BRNT SUCCESSFUL IN THE GOVERNOR'S RACE AND DOWN THE BALLOT COULD CERTAINLY MAKE ANOTHER TRY, HAVE ANOTHER RUN THEY RAN WELL ENOUGH, THEY WEREN'T HURT, LET'S SAY.

, BUT THEY WEREN'T SUCCESSFUL.

THEY COULD RUN AGAINST EVEN DOWNBALLOT SOME OF THE THOSE WHO LOST CAN CAN UMBACH.

IT'S A DEEP BENCH AND A LOT OF POTENTIAL AND FOR DEMOCRATS, TOO, NOT HAVING THE BENCH THAT THEY USED TO HAVE.

THAT'S THE JOB FOR THE FUTURE RIGHT NOW YOU SEE AND THE CONFIGURATION THAT RYAN QUARLES IS MAKING A SPEECH AND HE IS GIVING SOME SALUTATIONS THERE RIGHT NOW AND RECOGNIZING SOME FOLKS SO WE'LL TALK OVER THIS UNTIL HE GETS TO THE MEAT WHAT HAVE HE WOULD LIKE TO SAY.

SO RYAN QUARLES, LIKE WHAT IS NEXT FOR HIM?

>> RYAN HAD SOME OF THE MOST EXPERIENCE IN THE RATE.

TWO TERM AG COMMISSIONER.

EVERYONE AGREED HE WAS A GREAT COMMISSIONER.

OBVIOUSLY HAS FINISHED SECOND PLACE TONIGHT UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES WHICH IS AN OVER PERFORMANCE BASED ON THE POLLING WE HAD SEEN.

THAT'S AN HONORABLE AND GOOD STRONG FINISH FOR HIM.

I THINK HE WOULD MAKE A STRONG CONSIDERATION FOR RUNNING MATE AS WELL THE REALITY IS RYAN HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATORS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS HAD IN FRANKFORT FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

WITH SOME MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE.

THE AG DEPARTMENT IS A PRETTY BIG AGENCY.

AND SO THAT NOT TO BE DISCOUNTED AND HE DROVE ALL OVER THE STATE.

I DON'T THINK IN THE LAST 20 YEARS HAS ANYBODY PUT MORE MILES ON THE CAR THAN RYAN QUARLES AND BY THE WAY, THAT'S IMPORTANT.

>> Renee: LET'S LISTEN TO HIM RIGHT NOW BECAUSE HE IS TALKING ABOUT RAIN AND SUN AND TODAY IS SOME RAIN.

>> A SPECIAL THANKS.

I THINK IT'S JUST THE NEXT CHAPTER IN OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH BECAUSE GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, INCLUDING MYSELF.

[ APPLAUSE ] MY MESSAGE TO THE OTHER VICTORS TONIGHT WHO WILL BE REPRESENTING THE REPUBLICAN SPEART AS A SLATE, WE MUST ALL UNITE.

WE MUST ALL COME TOGETHER AFTER TONIGHT BECAUSE IF WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT ANDY BESHEAR, WE HAVE ALL COME TOGETHER AND IT STARTS RIGHT NOW.

AND IT STARTS RIGHT NOW AND AS FOR ME, FOR SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP ON A TOBACCO FARM JUST A FEW MILES NORTH OF HERE ONLY IN AMERICA ONLY IN AMERICA CAN YOU GROW UP WORKING AT AGE FOR A DOLLAR AN HOUR, THAT YOU CAN GO ON TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY THAT YOU CAN GO ON AND GET A GRADUATE DEGREE SOMEWHERE, RUN FOR THE STATE LEGISLATURE AT AGE 25, THEN GET TO SERVE IN STATEWIDE OFFICE NOT ONCE BUT TWOIS AS COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND HAVE A SHOT TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.

ONLY IN AMERICA CANNING?

LIKE THAT HAPPEN.

I'M PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY.

I'M PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY SO TONIGHT I WOULD LIKE TO END MY REMARKS WITH ONE OF THE FIRST KENTUCKIANS DANIEL BOONE.

WHO SAID THAT HEAVEN MUST BE A KENTUCKY KIND OF PLACE AND WOULD I HAVE TO AGREE WITH HIM TONIGHT GOD BLESS YOU, GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.

>> Renee: RYAN QUARLES, CURRENT AG COMMISSIONER GIVING HIS CONCESSION SPEECH.

HE CAME IN SECOND IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR GOVERNOR AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE GOING TO SWITCH OUR BOX OVER BECAUSE DANIEL CAMERON, THE NOMINEE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR IS RIGHT ON THE STAGE AND WE ARE GOING TO GO TO HIM LIVE RIGHT NOW.

>> YOU ARE MY ROCK.

YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION AND YOU ARE A PROVERBS 31 WOMAN.

AND I AM BLESSED BY YOU.

LET MEE JUST SAY WON'T SHE MAKE ONE HECK OF A FIRST LADY THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM TONIGHT AND TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AT HOME THAT MADE THIS WIN A REALITY AND OF COURSE A BIG THANK YOU TO PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP FOR HIS SUPPORT AND HIS ENDORSEMENT OF THIS CAMPAIGN.

LET ME JUST SAY THE TRUMP CULTURE OF WINNING IS ALIVE AND WELL IN KENTUCKY!

[ APPLAUSE ] YOU AND I TOGETHER, WE PROVED THAT NO OBSTACLE IS TOO GREAT.

NO BARRIER IS TOO LARGE WHEN CONCERN AND COMMITTED KENTUCKIANS COME TOGETHER AROUND A COMMON PURPOSE AND VISION, ROOTED IN IDEALS THAT HAVE PROPELLED THIS NATION FORWARD SINCE ITS VERY BEGINNING.

THOSE IDEALS BEING FAITH, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY.

OUR COMMONWEALTH AND THIS COUNTRY WERE BUILT ON THESE IDEALS AND ALL I HAVE TRIED TO DO IN THIS PRIMARY IS BE A VOICE FOR THOSE PRINCIPALS.

AND THIS CAMPAIGN HAS TRIED TO EMBODY THE PROMISE OF AMERICA.

THAT IF YOU WORK HARD AND IF YOU STAND ON PRINCIPLE, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

[ APPLAUSE ] TONIGHT WE PROVED THAT.

TONIGHT WE PROVED THAT HERE IN KENTUCKY THE AMERICAN DREAM AS LIVE AND WELL BECAUSE HERE IN KENTUCKY YOU AREN'T JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN BUT BY THE CONTENT OF YOUR CHARACTER.

SO TO ANYONE WHO LOOKS LIKE ME, KNOW THAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.

KNOW THAT IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN KENTUCKY ALL THAT MATTERS ARE YOUR VALUES.

[ APPLAUSE ] BUT I'VE GOT SOME DISAPPOINTING NEWS SADLY, ANDY BESHEAR WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT DREAM DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE.

HE WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT DREAM AND THOSE IDEALS ARE OLD FASHIONED: THE NEW RELIGION OF THE LEFT CAST DOUBTED ON THE GREATNESS OF AMERICA THEY EMBRACE A PICTURE OF THIS COUNTRY AND THIS COMMONWEALTH ROOTED IN DIVISION, HOSTILE TO FAITH AND COMMITTED TO THE EROSION OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM ANDY BESHEAR IS RESIGNED TO LIVE IN A COMMONWEALTH WHERE VIOLENT CRIME IS HIGH AND THE WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION RATE IS LOW HE IS CONTENT TO PRESIDE OVER THE ABANDONMENT OF OUR INNER CITIES AND THE DESOLATION OF OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES.

NOW THE GOVERNOR, DURING THIS ELECTION WILL TRY TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THINGS DONE BY A REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE.

BUT OUR PEOPLE ARE SMART.

THE GOVERNOR CANNOT HAVE PRETENDED TO HIT A TRIPLE WHEN EVERYBODY ELSE KNOWS HE WAS BORN ON THIRD BASE.

[ APPLAUSE ] PLAY BALL.

PLAY BALL.

THAT'S RIGHT.

[ APPLAUSE ] PLAY BALL.

SINCE HE HAS BECOME GOVERNOR, KENTUCKY HAS 27,000 FEWER MEN AND WOMEN WORKING.

OUR WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION RATE IS LOWER THAN IT'S EVER BEEN.

VIOLENT CRIME RUNS RAMPANT IN OUR LARGEST CITIES, FENTANYL IS RAVAGING OUR COMMUNITIES: THE LEFT IS TRYING TO HIJACK WOMEN'S SPORTS.

AND OUR SCHOOLS ARE ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING BREEDING GROUNDS FOR LIBERAL AND PROGRESSIVE IDEAS.

BUT RATHER THAN FACE THESE ISSUES HEAD ON THIS GOVERNOR SITS I'DLY BUY.

HE TOLD PEOPLE TO STAY HOME FOR TWO YEARS AND RATHER... AND RATHER THAN CREATE A CULTURE OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE KENTUCKY STATE POLICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HE OPTED INSTEAD TO SIT ON HIS HANDS AND TURN A BLIND EYE TO A STATEWIDE INCREASE IN CRIME AND RATHER THAN HOLD JOE BIDEN FOR HIS FAILURES AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER, HE EMBRACES THE BORDER POLICIES.

HE VETOED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD HAVE STOPPED BIOLOGICAL MEN FROM COMPETING IN WOMEN SPORTS.

AND RATHER THAN SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF PARENTS AND GRAND PARENTS WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT WHAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE LEARNING IN SCHOOL, HE SAID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I'M HERE TO TELL YOU TONIGHT THAT A GOVERNOR WHO WILL NOT SPEAK OUT ON THESE ISSUES AND WHO WILL NOT STAND UP FOR YOUR INTERESTS HAS AND ABDICATED HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COMMONWEALTH AND IS NOT FIT TO LEAD IT ANY LONGER.

AND IF YOU LEADERSHIP IS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER.

LOOK AT WHAT ANDY BESHEAR HAS DONE TO OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.

NOW WHEN HE BECAME GOVERNOR, HE APPOINTED A NEW BOARD DAYCARES AND THAT BOARD OF EDUCATION HIRED A NEW EDUCATION COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE BY THE NAME OF JASON GLASS Mr. GLASS RECENTLY SAID ANY TEACHER WHO EXPRESSED CONSCIOUS ABOUT THE GENDER IDEOLOGY CURRICULUM MAKING ITS WAY INTO OUR SCHOOLS, THAT THAT TEACHER SHOULD FIND ANOTHER JOB.

ANDY BESHEAR'S EDUCATION COMMISSIONER TOLD HARD WORKING TEACHERS, AND I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM MY WIFE MACKENZIE TALK-- TAUGHT FOR SEVEN YEARS IN THE OLDHAM COUNT SCHOOL SYSTEM.

WE LOVE OUR TEACHERS HERE IN KENTUCKY AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LOVES OUR TEACHERS HERE IN KENTUCKY.

BUT JASON GLASS, SAID THAT THOSE HARD WORKING TEACHERS GOT TO FIND ANOTHER JOB BECAUSE THEY WON'T BUY INTO THE FAR LEFT'S IDEOLOGY.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT ANSWER, THE RIGHT ANSWER IS THAT JASON GLASS AND ANDY BESHEAR NEED TO FIND ANOTHER JOB AND WE WILL HELP THEM DO THAT IN NOVEMBER!

BUT THAT IS WHY THIS RACE IS SO IMPORTANT.

AND IT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE AS REPUBLICANS COME TOGETHER AND SEVERAL OF MY FELLOW TRAVELERS ON THIS RACE FOR GOVERNOR HAVE CALLED ME TO CONGRATULATE US ON OUR VICTORY.

AND THEY RAN SPIRITED CAMPAIGNS BECAUSE LIKE YOU AND ME, THEY CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THEY KNOW TO GET KENTUCKY BACK ON TRACK, WE HAVE ONE MUGS AND THAT ONE MISSION IS TO RETIRE ANDY BESHEAR FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND TOGETHER WE CAN DO THAT TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN TOGETHER, WE CAN HAVE A BETTER AND BRIGHTER VERSION OF KENTUCKY.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE SURE KENTUCKY HAS A GOVERNOR WHO STANDS UP TO WASHINGTON AND AGAINST JOE BIDEN.

TOGETHER WE CAN EMPOWER OUR TEACHERS AND PRIORITIZE PARENTS INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF OUR KIDS TOGETHER WE CAN KEEP OUR STREETS SAFE FROM CRIME AND DRUGS.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE SURE OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND OUR CHURCHES ARE NEVER SHUT DOWN AGAIN.

AND TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT ANDY BESHEAR IS A ONE-TERM GOVERNOR.

LET'S GO WIN THIS THING!

GOD BLESS YOU.

GOD BLESS OUR COMMONWEALTH.

>> Renee: YOU JUST WITNESSED A HISTORY MAKING MOMENT WITH DANIEL CAMERON WHO IS ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HAS SECURED A NOMINATION OF A MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY ON THEIR OWN RIGHT ASHED ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON HAS DONE THIS EVENING BY A CONVINCING AND SIGNIFICANT VICTORY THIS EVENING.

SO WE ARE GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.

WE ALSO HAVE OTHERS WHO ARE JOINING US A LITTLE LATER ON.

WE WILL BE HEARING FROM SOME OF THE OTHER DOWN BALLOT.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING.

WE'LL HEAR FROM THEM LATER ON IN INTERVIEWS AND SPEECHTS THEY'VE DELIVERED.

WE'LL HAVE THAT FOR YOU AS WE MOVE ALONG THIS EVENING.

WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THERE IS THAT WE LOVE TEACHERS AND WE DIDN'T HEAR THAT SO MUCH IN 2019 FROM THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR.

DIFFERENT TONE HERE, RIGHT?

>> DANIEL IS A REALLY GOOD POLITICIAN SUPER NATURAL COMMUNICATION TALENT.

HE IS PROSECUTING THE CASE IN THE EXACT WAY THAT IT HAS TO BE PROSECUTED.

HE IS NOT KNOWN FOR BEING LIKE CONFRONTATIONAL IN HIS POLITICAL SPEECH THE WAY BEVIN WAS BUT I'LL TELL YOU AFTER HE TALKED ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS TO BE AND HIS SORT OF VALUES, HIS PIVOT ON ANDY BESHEAR AND GOING AHEAD AND BEGINNING TO LAY OUT THE CASE TONIGHT WAS REALLY REALLY SHARP.

AND SO I THINK HE FAILED THAT SPEECH.

AND BY THE WAY, HE IS MARRIED TO A TEACHER.

MACKENZIE IS A SCHOOLTEACHER SO I KNOW HE LOVES ONE.

AND THEY'VE GOT A GREAT FAMILY IN OLDHAM COUNTY.

BUT I THINK WHAT YOU SAW OUT OF CAMERON TONIGHT IS THAT THE BESHEARS ARE OR DEALING WITH SOME POLITICAL TALENT THAT THEY WERE NOT OR DEALING WITH IN 2019 AND CAMERON GOT A LOT MORE VOTES DID WHEN ANDY BESHEAR WHEN THEY WERE ON A BALLOT TOGETHER IN 2019.

I THINK THE HANDICAPPERS ARE GOING TO SAY THIS IS A LEAN DEMOCRAT.

NOT TOO FAST.

IT'S A TOSS-UP AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STATISTICS OF VOTERS IN KENTUCKY, REPUBLICANS HAVE A LOT OF MOMENTUM COMING OUT OF THIS.

>> Renee: WE HEARD SCOTT JENNINGS SAY THAT PERHAPS JASON GLASS IS GOING TO APPEAR TO BE THE RUNNING MATE OF ANDY BESHEAR AND OF COURSE BY THE TIME YOU ADD ON BIDEN SO THERE IS A TRIUMVIRATE WITH BIDEN, BESHEAR AND GLASS.

WHAT DOES THE GOVERNOR DO OR WAS DO YOU RECOMMEND AS A DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT THE GOVERNOR DO TO SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM GLASS?

HE COULD GET ANOTHER JOB BETWEEN NOW AND BEFORE, BUT WILL THAT BE ENOUGH?

>> I THINK KELLY CRAFT'S LOSING MESSAGE TONIGHT ABOUT WOKE IDEOLOGIES AND DISMANT-- DISMANTLING THE KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, GETTING RID OF GLASS WAS NOT A WINNING MESSAGE.

THAT WAS HER BIG TV ADS, ALL OF HER MAILERS AND BIG TALKING POINTS, PROBABLY PART OF THE REASON SHE CHOSE MAX WEISS WAS BECAUSE HE WAS CHAIR OF THE SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE AND HAD A LOT OF EDUCATION POLICY EXPERIENCE.

IT DIDN'T WORK TONIGHT.

DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK IN NOVEMBER BECAUSE JASON GRASS IS NOT EVEN APPOINTED BY ANDY BESHEAR AND HE WILL HAVE EXITED THE STATE.

HIS POSITION AT K.D.E.

AT THAT POINT AND MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT INTERESTED IN A BUREAUCRAT LIKE JASON GLASS.

HE DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME APPEAL AS MAYBE SOME OTHER SHINY POLITICIANS.

>> BESHEAR DID FIRE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND APPOINTED THE PEOPLE WHO HIRED GLASS DID HE NOT.

>> WHICH IS WHAT KELLY CRAFT SHE WOULD DO IN OFFICE.

>> YOU ARE RADICALLY MISUNDERSTANDING HOW HE WON.

EDUCATION IS THE ONE THING THAT TOUCHES EVERY SINGLE VOTER WHETHER YOU HAVE KIDS IN THE SCHOOLS OR YOU WENT TO A SCHOOL OR WHETHER YOU WANT TO HAVE KIDS THAT GO TO THE SCHOOLS THIS IS GOING TO BE A VIETSAL TOPIC AND PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT IT AND I THINK IT IS GOING TO WORK AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHO ANDY BESHEAR'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IS BUT JASON GLASS IS GOING TO BE FAMOUS BEFORE THIS IS OVER WITH.

HE DOES NOT RUN THE DEPARTMENT LIKE MOST KENTUCKIANS WILL RUN IT.

>> SCOTT JENNINGS WE KNOW THAT DANIEL CAMERON THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA OF ANDY BESHEAR AND ADOPTED IT AND ENCOURAGE A PAY RAISE FOR TEACHERS.

HE CAME ON THAT BANDWAGON BUT WE HAVEN'T HEARD BEYOND TEACHER PAY INCREASE WHAT THE EDUCATION PLATFORM IS OF DANIEL CAMERON.

>> I THINK THE EDUCATION PLATFORM IS TO SUPPORT TEACHERS AND NOT BUREAUCRATS.

THAT'S THE WHOLE REPUBLICAN MESSAGE RIGHT NOW THAT EDUCATION POLICY IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN THIS STATE IS BENDING TOWARD IDEOLOGICAL BUREAUCRATS AND NOT LETTING TEACHERS DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, TEACH READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC.

THAT'S ALL ANYBODY WANTS IS THEIR KID TO HAVE ENOUGH EDUCATION TO GO TO COLLEGE OR CHOOSE THE PROFESSION THAT THEY WANT AND PURSUE THAT DREAM WITHOUT IDEOLOGICAL BAGGAGE HUNG ALL OVER THEM EVERY STEP ALONG THE WAY EVEN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

THIS IS A MASSIVE ISSUES FOR VOTERS, RELATIONSHIP REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

WE LIVE IN A REPUBLICAN STATE.

I THINK IT WILL BE RESONANT IN NOVEMBER I DON'T SEE IDEOLOGICAL BAGGAGE IN CLASSROOMS LIKE KELLY CRAFT EATS SILLY AD.

WAS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO TEACHERS ABOUT HOW YOU DEAL WITH THE HISTORICAL PROBLEMS OF THE DISADVANTAGED AND YES, THE RACISM THAT DOES EXHIBIT IN SOCIETY THEY'RE NOT TEACHING WOKE IDEOLOGIES TO CHILDREN AND THAT IS A COMPLETE MISREPRESENTATION OF THE FACTS.

EVEN IF THE MESSAGES MIGHT BE SIMILAR TO WHAT CRAFT RAN ON HE DELIVERED IT SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVELY AND IT GETS BACK TO THE POLITICAL TALENT THAT CAMERON PRESENTS.

ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAD BACK WHEN I SAW A BUNCH OF MY FRIEND ENDERRING THE RACE I'M FRIENDS WITH THE TOP THREE VOTE GETTERS.

A LOT OF THESE FOLKS I KNOW.

NONE OF THEM HAD RUN AT THIS LEVEL BEFORE.

WHEN YOU STEP UP, YOU WONDER DO THEY HAVE THAT ABILITY TO G. IT'S ONE THING TO ONE A.G. IS A TOUGH RACE, AUDITOR, COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, THESE ARE STUFF RACES BUT STEPPING UP AND RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OR THE CONGRESS FOR THE UNITED STATES, DO YOU HAVE THE TALENT TO DO THAT?

DANIEL STEPPED UP AND GREW AS A POLITICIAN.

AND ON THE MOST IMPORTANT NIGHT TO DATE OF HIS POLITICAL CAREER, HE DELIVERED A VERY STRONG MESSAGE.

>> GAVE A GREAT SPEECH.

>> HIS MARGIN WAS SO BIG THAT THE NEED TO UNIFY BEHIND THE WINNER IS MUCH EASIER WHEN YOU HAVE NEARLY 50% OF THE VOTE.

THIS REMINDS ME OF 2007 WHEN CURRENT GOVERNOR BESHEAR'S FATHER PULLED AWAY IN 07 AND WAS ABLE TO UNIFY THAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY AGAINST AN INCUMBENT WHO WAS NOT POPULAR.

BESHEAR WAS MUCH MORE POPULAR THAN ERNIE FLETCHER BUT THE PULLING AWAY MADE THE UNIFICATION MUCH EASIER.

CAMERON DID THAT ATTORNEY, THE TOP TWO DEBATES EVEN DEETERS HAS HAS ENDORSED DANIEL CAMERON.

DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN GOOD AT THIS.

I REMEMBER IN 2010 IN MY SENATE RACE THEY DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB.

CONWAY AND COME TOGETHER AND THAT DIVISION HURT THEM IN THE RACE.

BUT THE REPUBLICAN PEAFORT IS COMING TOGETHER TONIGHT AND WE HAVE A CANDIDATE WHO CAN CARRY THE MANTLE.

>> Renee: FOR THE OTHER FOLKS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO SAID DANIEL CAMERON LINE JUMPED AND SAID HE WAS GOING TO BE A TWO-TERM ATTORNEY GENERAL AND DECIDED NOT TO BE AND ACTUALLY TURNED OUT TO BE AN ASPIRING GOVERNOR, ARE THEY OKAY NOW?

>> HE WON.

WINNING SOLVES A LOT OF PROBLEMS.

HE MEANT THAT WHEN HE RAN.

WHEN HE RAN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, I DON'T THINK HE ENVISIONED HIMSELF RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR.

HE ENVISIONED HIMSELF RUNNING FOR REELECTION.

I THINK HE MEANT THAT BUT POLITICS CHANGED.

THE OPPORTUNITIES CHANGED.

GOT MARRIED, HAD A SON.

I THINK I WANT TO BE GOVERNOR.

I THINK I WANT TO SERVE THE STATE IN THAT WAY.

IT'S A BETTER COMMUTE.

WALK ACROSS THE STREET FROM YOUR HOUSE TO YOUR JOB RATHER THAN JUMPING ON A PLANE AND YOU HAVE YOU CAN DO MORE AS GOVERNOR.

>> I HEARD HIM SAY THAT VERY THING.

THAT HE THINKS HE CAN DO MORE AS GOVERNOR.

AND I THINK HE WAS APPALLED DURING THE PANDEMIC AT HOW LONG THE STATE WAS CLOSED.

I THINK HE WAS APPALLED WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CHURCH, WHAT HAPPENED GOING ON IN THE SCHOOLS.

I THINK WHEN HE STARTED OUT, HE COULD NOT IMAGINE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR BUT I ALSO DON'T THINK HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED HOW BAD THIS TERM WOULD BE FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE AND THAT CAUSED HIM TO GO GET INTO THE RACE AND NOBODY EVER FAULTED A POLITICIAN FOR RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND I THINK YOU SAW TONIGHT WHY HE IS GOING TO BE A COMPETITIVE NOMINEE.

>> Renee: STANDING BY, THE MANAGING EDITOR OF CONNECTED PUBLIC RADIO.

GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> HEY RENEE.

GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> Renee: I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU HEARD OF OUR CONVERSATION.

YOU ARE BUSY DOING A NEWSCAST FOR LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA.

TELL US YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE RACE AND WHERE WE ARE LIGHT NOW.

>> ANALYSIS OF THE RACE, I WAS LOOKING BACK THROUGH SOME OF THE OLD STORIES OVER THE LAST YEAR WHEN DANIEL CAMERON ANNOUNCED HIS CANDIDACY JUST ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND HE WAS THE THIRD CANDIDATE TO GET IN THE RACE BACK THEN.

AND I THINK AT THAT TIME, AND THEN WITH HIM GETTING THE TRUMP ENDORSEMENT IT REALLY SEEMED LIKE OKAY THIS IS PRETTY WELL SPELLED OUT AND THEN THIS RACE STARTED TO FEEL A LOT MORE COMPETITIVE WITH KELLY CRAFT ENTERING INTO THE AIRWAVES FIGHT AND ALL THE MONEY SPENT AMONG THE CANDIDATES TRYING TO JOSTLE FOR PLACE.

BUT REALLY WITH THESE RETURNS COMING IN, IT SEEMS LIKE DANIEL CAMERON REALLY, YOU KNOW, HAD THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF KENTUCKIANS OR AT LEAST 10% OF VOTERS WHO MAY HAVE SHOWN UP TO VOTE TODAY SO HERE IS IS ANOTHER ATTORNEY GENERAL CHALLENGING A GOVERNOR IN KENTUCKY.

WE HAVE A LITTLE HISTORY OF THAT WITH BESHEAR DOING THAT, CHALLENGING GOVERNOR BEVIN AND HAVING CHALLENGED BESHEAR SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THIS TIME WHEN THEY WERE BOTH IN OFFICE AT THE SAME TIME AND WE ARE REALLY GOING TO SEE HOW MUCH GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR, ALL THE DISASTERS THAT HAVE HAPPENED, HOW MUCH THAT IS ABLE TO HOLD.

I THOUGHT THE DISCUSSION WERE YOU HAVING ABOUT EDUCATION IS ESPECIALLY POINTED ONE GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR HAS FLOATED HIS 2019 ON BEING THE TEACHER CANDIDATE.

SOMETHING HE HAS ADVOCATED FOR WHENEVER HE IS PROPOSING HIS BUDGETS AND IT SEEMED DURING GENERAL CAMERON'S SPEECH THAT HE HE KNOWS THAT AND HE IS GOING TO TRY TO TAKE THIS IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

GOING TO TRY TO BE A DIFFERENT TEACHER CANDIDATE GORBACHEV SO O SEE BUT IT FEELS LIKE HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF A BIT.

AND, YEAH, WE GOT SEVERAL MORE MONTHS TO WATCH BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTION NOW.

>> Renee: LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DOWN BALLOT BECAUSE YOU POSTED A STORY ABOUT KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE ADAMS WHO SAYS THIS PRIMARY WIN WAS A VICTORY AGAINST MISDIRECTION AND MISINFORMATION.

WE TALKED ABOUT THAT ELECTION DENIERS HERE DURING THE COURSE OF OUR COVERAGE.

SO TALK TO US ABOUT THAT RACE AND MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT MAYBE KNIPPER MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN HE DID BUT THIS SENDS A STRONG SIGNAL TO FUTURE CANDIDATES ABOUT THE ELECTION DENYING MESSAGE AND THAT YOU CAN STAND FOR INTEGRITY AND ELECTIONS AND FAIRNESS AND THE TRUTH AND STILL WIN AS A REPUBLICAN.

>> YEAH, AND FARTHER DOWN THE BALLOT, ANDREW COOPER RIDER RIDING THAT RACE FORTRESS YOU ARER.

JUST ASKING HIM ABOUT WHAT HE WAS FEELING GOING INTO THE PRIMARY AND IF HE WOULD BE, WHAT WOULD THAT VICTORY SIGNIFY AND HE SAID THIS IS A VINDICATION FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS AND ONE THAT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF FLIES IN THE FACE OF FOLKS WHO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A GROWING ELECTION DENIAL MOVEMENT.

GRANTED, THERE IS A MOVEMENT OUT THERE FOR SURE OF FOLKS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN THE INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS, BUT CERTAINLY STILL SEEMS TO BE A BUNCH OF KENTUCKY'S ELECTORATE OUT THERE AND WILLING TO SUPPORT MIKE ADAMS WHO HAS BEEN BEHIND THIS EVER SINCE HE WAS THE RECENT WINNER OF HIS ELECTION IN 2019 AFTER SECURING THE VICTORY IN NOVEMBER WHEN THEN GOVERNOR BESHEAR WAS STARTING TO QUESTION THEY-- GOVERNOR BLEVIN WAS QUESTIONING THE RESULTS AND MIKE ADAMS CAME OUT AND SAID LISTEN, REPUBLICANS, THIS ELECTION WAS STRAIGHTFORWARD AFGHANISTAN THE REVAN VIRGINIAS WE SHOULD FALL IN LINE WITH THIS.

HE HAS BEEN FIGHTING THAT FIGHT ESPECIALLY THROUGH 2020 WHEN THIS WAS REALLY THROWN NOT FOREFRONT IN THE WAKE OF THE PRESIDENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THROUGHOUT CROAFERRED ALONG WITH ANDY BESHEAR, ISSUED REGULATIONS TO EXPAND ACCESS TO THE POLLS WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE WERE QUARANTINED STAYING SAFE AT HOME I THINK A LOT OF EXCLAMATION POINTS ALARM BELLS WENT OFF FOR FOLKS WHEN MIKE ADAMS SAID I COULD LOSE THIS RACE NOBODY SAW THAT COMING FROM HIS CHALLENGERS BUT I THINK THAT ONCE AGAIN THIS IS THE VINDICATION OF THE ELECTION INTEGRITY LINE HE WAS PUSHING.

>> Renee: THANK YOU.

WE'LL HAVE YOU ON TOMORROW NIGHT AT 6:30 WHEN YOU WILL PROBABLY SAY MUCH MUCH WHAT YOU JUST SAID NOW BUT MAYBE MORE.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL ADAMS IN JUST A MOMENT.

WE WILL HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM LIVE IN JUST A MOMENT.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THINGS.

WE DID A STATEMENT FROM O., HE SAID TRAVELING ACROSS THIS GREAT COMMONWEALTH FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS HAS FILLED ME WITH PRIDE AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.

I WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING TO UPHOLD THE GREATNESS OF AMERICA AND GOODNESS OF KENTUCKY.

I CALLED AND CONGRATULATED MARK METCALFE AND WILL HELP TO ELECT HIM AND EVERY OTHER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN NOVEMBER.

HE WAS ONCE THE DEPUTY STATE TREASURER UNDER ALLISON BALL AND SO WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS FOR HIM.

WHAT HAPPENS FOR HIM?

>> GREAT GUY.

WELL THOUGHT OF AND RAN A POSITIVE RACE SO DID MARK METCALFE.

YOU HAVE 75% OF THE REPUBLICANS PICKING PEOPLE WHO RAN A POSITIVE RACE AND 25% WHO DIDN'T.

I'M SURE OSM J.

IS GOING TO GO ON AND TONT TO BE INVOLVED.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MARK METCALF.

MARK HAS BEEN AROUND FAIRWAY A LONG TIME, HE HAS BEEN ON THE BALLOT A NUMBER OF TIMES.

HE HE DID SERVE WITH ME ALL THOSE YEARS BACK IN THE BUSH-CHENEY ADMINISTRATION AND RENDERED GREAT SERVICE TO THE GOVERNMENT AND TO THE PARTY.

HE WILL BE A GREAT NOMINEE.

I THINK, AS I LOOK DOWN THE SLATE TONIGHT, YOU'VE GOT REALLY TALENTED PEOPLE.

CAMERON HAS TALENT, METCALF HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WE TALKED ABOUT MIKE ADAMS WHO REALLY DESERVES TO BE REELECTIONED PROBABLY BY ACCLAMATION.

ALLISON BALL NOMINATED FOR STATE AUDITOR.

ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR REPUBLICANS.

AND SO THE ONLY RACE THAT HASN'T BEEN CALLED IS AG COMMISSIONER AND SCHELL LEADS HEATH 58-42 WITH 75% OF THE VOTE IN.

I LOOK AT A SLATE RIGHT HERE THAT IS REALLY GOOD TOP TO BOTTOM AND COULD BE A UNIFIED SLATE.

I THINK BACK IN 2019 THERE WERE SOME CANDIDATES THAT DIDN'T WANT TO BE HOT TO TROT TO BE AROUND MATT BEVIN BUT WITH CAMERON, ALL THESE CANDIDATES ARE GOING TO BE HELPING EACH OTHER AND THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF SINNER ANY SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR PARTY UNITY AND WHO IS CARRYING WHAT MESSAGE AND VOTER TURNOUT.

>> WE HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF DECLINING TURNOUT IN THESE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

I THINK LATELY BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST GET MORE FOCUSED ON NATIONAL ISSUES.

BUT IF YOU'VE GOT A FULL QUALIFIED TICKET LIKE THE REPUBLICANS NOW HAVE GOING OUT HERE AND BEATING THE BUSHES, IT'S NOT TO BESHEAR'S ADVANTAGE AT ALL.

>> WE HAVE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS AND I'M A REPUBLICAN BUT THE DEMOCRATS ARE A PLEAT GOOD TICKET, TOO.

IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS STRATEGICALLY PUT TOGETHER TO BALANCE, NORTHERN KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE I THIS I OUR FOLKS ARE GOING TO SWEEP BUT IN BOTH CASES BOATS HAVE SURROGATES THAT THEY CAN SEND OUT IN THE STATE WITHOUT HESITATION AND I'M NOT SURE THE LAST TIME THAT HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

WHERE BOTH PARTIES CAN SAY WE ARE PROUD OF AND WE ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORT THIS WHOLE TICKET.

>> Renee: TALK ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

>> I THINK WHAT TREY SAID IS ACCURATE.

IT WAS STRATEGICALLY DONE AND IT SHOWS SINCE THEY WERE REALLY NO PRIMARIES EXCEPT FOR THE AG COMMISSIONER RACE ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE; THAT OUR CANDIDATES ARE OUR CANDIDATES FOR NOVEMBER.

THEY HAVE PARTY SUPPORT.

OF COURSE WE ARE GOING TO RELY ON THE GOVERNOR TO LEAD THE CHARGE AND LEAD THAT TICKET.

BUT WE HAVE VERY STRONG CANDIDATES COLONEL PAM STEVENSON FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, SHE IS A NOPE ENTITY, ESPECIALLY IN LOUISVILLE, BUT IS WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET OUT HER STATE NAME.

ARE I.D.

AND BUDDY WHEATLEY, FORMER TWO-TERM STATE REPRESENTATIVE WHO DID LEAD THE VOTING ISSUES IN THE HOUSE WHEN HE WAS THERE.

>> Renee: AND WORKED ON PIB PENSION REFORM.

>> A FARMER AND YOU CAN EMPLOYEE, SO WE ARE REPRESENTING ALL PORTIONS OF THE STATE AND WE ARE WORKING HARD TO GET OUR MESSAGE OUT THERE WHILE WE SUPPORT THE GOVERNOR.

>> Renee: BOB.

>> THE DEMOCRATS DIDN'T HAVE THE COMBATIVE RACE LIKE TREASURER BUT PRODUCED A TICKET NEVERTHELESS IS THAT HAS SOME SUBSTANCE TO IT.

SO WE ARE GOING TO SEE THOSE RACES BE SPIRITED FOR SURE.

WE STARTED THIS WITH THE COMMENTS METCALF RAN A BETTER RACE THAN ANYBODY EXPECTED.

PUT TOGETHER SOME GOOD FUNDAMENTALS AND ALECK WHO HAS BEEN PROMINENT FOR THE PRIVATE COLLEGES WITH A PSM H.D.

AND EXPERIENCE HE HAS GOT WILL HAVE ANOTHER SHOT LIKE OTHERS OF YOU US TRIED TO DO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL ADAMS JOINING US FROM OUR KET FRANKFORT OPERATIONS HE IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH AND YOU ARE GET AGO PLAWS FROM OTHER FORMER OTHER FORMER KENTUCKY SECRETARIES OF STATE.

>> AND A ROOMMATE.

>> Renee: YOUR FAN CLUB IS HERE OR TWO OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS ARE HERE IN THE STUDIO.

>> I HAVE A WHOLE NEW RESPECT FOR SECRETARY GRAYSON RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND RUNNING FOR ELECTION TAIPT.

>> Renee: CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU, SIR.

AND WHEN I SPOKE WITH YOU, YOU WERE ON KENTUCKY TONIGHT A WEEK OR SO AGO AND YOU TALKED ABOUT THE PIECE THAT RAN IN THE "HERALD-LEADER" ABOUT HOW COULD YOU LOSE THIS THING.

I'M SURE YOU FEEL REALLY GOOD TONIGHT ABOUT THE OUTCOME AND TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE IT?

>> I THINK REPUBLICANS OF KENTUCKY ARE GOING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION AND IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT SOMETHING BY DESIGN ON MY PART I'VE TAKEN DIFFICULT STANDS OCCASIONALLY AGAINST MY OWN PERSONAL INTERESTS TO MAKE SURE KENTUCKIANS CAN VOTE.

IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE THE LEGISLATURE RATIFY THE THINGS THAT I'VE PUSHED AND DONE A COUPLE YEARS AGO ACROSS PARTY LINES AND GREAT TO HAVE MY PARTY BACK ME BY A SOLID MARGIN.

>> Renee: 63.6% OF THE VOTE STEVEN KNIPPER TRAILED WITH 27% OF THE VOTE.

AND WE HAVE THE RESULTS ON THE SCREEN WHICH I DON'T THINK YOU CAN SEE THERE SO GOING FORWARD, WILL YOU MATCH UP WITH BUDDY WHEATLEY WHO WAS A TWO-TERM STATE LEGISLATURE WHO WORKED ON ELECTION REFORM MEASURES AND PUBLIC PENSION REFORM MEASURES.

TALK TO US ABOUT THE RACE YOU WILL BE RUNNING FROM NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER I DON'T TAKE MY RACE FOR GRANTED.

I WORK LIKE I'M 20 POINTS BEHIND EVERY TIME.

DECISIONS KENTUCKIANS HAVE TO MAKE IS SHOULD THEY FIRE ME?

WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MORE THAN THE LAST FOUR YEARS THAN WE DID IN THE PRIOR 200 YEARS.

ESPECIALLY WE NEED A REPUBLICAN CAN WORK WITH A REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE AND CHANGE SOME MINDS AND LEAD AND I JUST DON'T THINK IT WOULD MAKE ANY SENSE TO REPLACE ME WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

THE LESSON EVERYONE WOULD LEARN IF THEY DID THAT IS DON'T DO WHAT ADAMS DID SO I'M GRATEFUL THAT THE REPUBLICANS PUT ME BACK IN TODAY AND I HOPE TO DO THE SAME THING IN NOVEMBER.

>> Renee: I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT VOTER TURNOUT.

YOU WILL KNOW THAT LATER ON BUT YOU PREDICTED ANYWHERE FROM 10 TO 15%.

I'VE ASKED YOU THIS QUESTION ABOUT HOW DO YOU BUOY VOTER TURNOUT PARTICULARLY IN AN OFF YEAR ELECTION TO GET MORE PEOPLE ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS.

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE THING YOU ARE GOING TO PETITION THE KENTUCKY GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DO AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MAYBE LONGER POLLING HOURS TO P.M. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER AGENDA EYE TERM LIMITS THAT HAVE YOU FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS SHOULD THE KENTUCKY VOTERS SEND YOU BACK AT SECRETARY OF STATE?

>> I ANY THE NUMBER ONE THING WE SHOULD DO IS IN THE NEXT STATE BUDGET IN THE NEXT SESSION NEXT YOUR IS TO REALIGN OUR FUNDING OF THE COUNTIES FOR THEIR ELECTIONS TO OPENING THE POLLS.

RIGHT NOW THE COUNTIES GET A CHECK BASED ON HOW MANY PRECINCTS THEY HAVE ON PAPER, NOT HOW MANY THEY OPEN OR HOW MANY LOCATIONS THEY HAVE.

IT'S A BAD INCENTIVE.

OVER TIME I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE UTILIZATION OF EARLY VOTING TO EASE THE PRESSURE ON ELECTION DAY ITSELF BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A LACE FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO VOTE ON TUESDAY.

THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS INCENTIVIZE THE COUNTY CLERKS TO REOPEN THE PRECINCTS.

>> Renee: THANK YOU SECRETARY MICHAEL ADAMS.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR BEING WITH US TONIGHT CONGRATULATIONS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO ENGAGING YOU IN THIS STUDIO AGAIN IN OCTOBER, SIR.

>> OKAY.

SEE YOU SOON, THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH SO WE ARE LITTLE GOING TO TALK WITH BUDDY WHEATLEY, CHARLES BUDDY WHEATLEY, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE.

CAN YOU TELL ME IF THE TAPE IS READY.

RUSSELL COLEMAN.

LET'S GO TO A DIFFERENT RACE ENTIRELY.

WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT ATTORNEY GENERAL WHICH IS GOING TO BE A FIERY RACE.

SCOTT JENNINGS, SET THE STAGE.

>> PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT RACE ON THE BALLOT OTHER THAN GOVERNOR BECAUSE THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF POWER AND INFLUENCE OVER WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CAPITOL.

>> Renee: MORE SO IN RECENT YEARS.

>> SEVERAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN A ROW HAVE CHALLENGED GOVERNORS ALD ARE AND LEGISLATURES AND BEEN PART OF THE POLICY BACK AND FORTH IN FRANKFORT.

IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, BOTH PARTIES DIDN'T HAVE A PRIMARY SO WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT IT MUCH TONIGHT BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING RACE.

AND ONE THAT I THINK WILL PROBABLY GET, IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE PANTHEON OF OVERALL SPENDING ON WHAT WILL LIKELY HAPPEN IN THE FALL ELECTION, GOVERNOR WILL BE NUMBER ONE BUT YOU WILL PROBABLY SEE MORE ADVERTISING AND INFORMATION ABOUT A.G. THAN ANY OTHER RACE.

>> Renee: WE SPOKE WITH RUSSELL COLEMAN, WHO IS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL EARLIER TODAY ABOUT HIS PLANS IF HE BECOMES THE STATE'S NEXT TOP PROSECUTOR.

>> FROM DAY ONE, ATTORNEY GENERAL NEEDS TO SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITION THE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM TO THE A.G.'S OFFICE.

FULL IMPLEMENTATION NOT UNTIL 2025 BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A 3,500,000,000 PROGRAM.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ESTIMATES OVER A BILLION DOLLARS, 1.3 AND IS .4 BILLION IN ARREARS THAT THAT'S MONEY THAT IS NOT GOING TO FAMILIES TO SINGLE MOMS AND KID THAT NEED IT.

SO THE NEXT AI.

J.

NEEDS TO BE LASER BEAM FOCUSED MAKING SURE THAT IS DONE RIGHT.

THE NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS TO BE SUFFOLK USED WITH A-- FOCUSED WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY WITH THE DRUG THREAT AND VIOLENCE IN LEXINGTON, LOUISVILLE AND ALSO IN RURAL KENTUCKY AS WELL.

AND LET ME EMPHASIZE, HOW DOES THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SITTING IN FRANKFORT HAVE AN IMPACT ON VIOLENT CRIME OR DRUG OVERDOSE DEATH IN OUR MOST RURAL TO OUR MOST URBAN AREAS.

IT'S BY SUPPORTING THE MEN AND WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINE.

IT'S BY MAKING SURE OUR PROSECUTORS HAVE RESOURCES.

IT'S BY MAKING SURE OUR PROSECUTORS HAVE ADEQUATE TRAINING, MAKING SURE OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO ARE OUT THERE ON THE STREET HAVE ADEQUATE TRAINING AND ACCESS TO RESOURCES.

SO BETWEEN THAT SIGNIFICANT TRANSITION OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT TO WHAT I THINK NEEDS TO BE THE FIRST AND LAST THING THE NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL THINKS ABOUT EVERY DAY AND THAT IS ENFORCING THE LAW WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY AND PROTECTING FAMILIES, IT WILL BE A FULL PLATE AND I'M LOOKING VERY MUCH FORWARD TO THE PRIVILEGE OF AGAIN SERVING KENTUCKIANS AND BEING BACK IN THAT FIGHT: THE 25 LITTLER IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE A-- THE TARGET IN LAWMAKER TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES IS A MOFL TARGET.

IN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFTEN TIMES OUR BIGGEST LIMITING FACTOR IS NOT RESOURCES ALTHOUGH WE CAN CERTAINLY USE MORE RESOURCES.

IT'S NOT PERSONNEL.

IT'S NOT ATTRITION.

AND TYPICALLY WHEN I WAS UNITED STATES ATTORNEY AND WOULD I GIVE THIS MESSAGE, I WOULD REACH IN MY POCKET AND PULL OUT MY BADGE.

AND WOULD I SAY OFTEN TIMES HISTORICALLY OUR BIGGEST LIMITING FACTOR IS WHAT IT SAYS ON OUR BADGE WE DON'T COLLABORATE WELL HISTORICALLY IN LAW.

WE CAN ALWAYS DO A BETTER JOB TEARING DOWN THE SILOS BETWEEN THE SHERIFF, THE CHIEF, STATE POLICE, FURTHER ENGAGING WITH THE FEDS.

WE CAN ALSO IMPROVE COLLABORATION AND THAT WILL BE THE FOUNDATION OF MY ADMINISTRATION IF PRIVILEGED TO SERVE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL.

SERCHGING AS THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE, CONVENING AUTHORITY THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS UNIQUELY QUALIFIED AND UNIQUELY DESIGNED TO DO.

SO THAT WAS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL RUSSELL COLEMAN WHO SPOKE WITH A COUPLE OF OUR PRODUCERS EARLIER TODAY IN OUR VISITOR CENTER OUT IN THE LOBBY.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RACE AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME SOUND FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE PAMELA STEVENSON THAT WE ARE READIYING AND WE WILL GIVE THAT TO YOU IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES.

MORE ABOUT THE BACKGROUND OF RUSSELL COLEMAN.

>> HE MAY BE THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE FOR A.

GO.

IN THE LAST SEVERAL ELECTION CYCLES.

FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY, FORMER FBI AGENT.

COUNSEL FOR SENATOR McCONNELL.

HE AND CAMERON ARE CLOSE.

IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THEY WERE IN EACH OTHER'S WEDDINGS RUSSELL IS A REALLY STRONG KNOWLEDGE OF THE OFFICE AND ITS CHALLENGES HE DIDN'T HAVE AN ELECTION, THE FIRST ELECTION WHEN YOU ANNOUNCE UNTIL FILING DEADLINE DAY AND HE DID SUCH A GOOD JOB BRINGING THE PARTY TOGETHER, SECURING ENDORSEMENTS, RAISING MONEY, GETTING SUPPORT IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AMONG DONORS AND ALL ACROSS KENTUCKY THAT NOBODY WANTED TO FILE AGAINST HIM.

AND SO HE WON THE BEST WAY YOU CAN WIN AN ELECTION ON FILING DEADLINE DAY ANY OTHER COMMENT THERE?

>> HE IS A STRONG CANDIDATE FOR CANDIDATE THAN ANY OTHER CANDIDATE HE IS FACING DEMOCRATIC CURRENT STATE REPRESENTATIVE PAMELA STEVENSON.

HERE IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY THIS EVENING.

>> ALL THE SKILLS I LEARNED FROM WORKING GLOBALLY, INTERNATIONALLY WITH ALL TYPES OF PEOPLE AND ALL COUNTRIES.

I WANT TO BRING TO MAKE KENTUCKY THE STATE WHERE EVERY FAMILY THRIVES.

TOGETHER WE CAN DO ANYTHING WE CAN SHOW THE OTHER STATES WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A KENTUCKIAN WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE LIFE FULLY.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE FAMILIES THAT WORK BEEN BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE ALL OF US GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ARE GREAT AND THEY NEED US AND I THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE HERE IS THE SECRET THAT WE NEED TO TELL EVERYBODY IN YOUR PHONE BOOKS,-- I'M SHOWING MY AGE.

CELL PHONES-- [LAUGHTER] AND TELL EVERYBODY THIS WE ARE THE LEADERS THAT WORLD IS COUNTING ON.

KENTUCKY WILL LEAD THE WAY.

IT'S GOING TO TAKE YOU DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE IN YOUR POWER TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS DEMOCRACY THRIVES.

>> Renee: SO THAT WAS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE REPRESENTATIVE PAMELA STEVENSON.

SO SHE IS KNOWN FOR HER FIERY DELIVERY.

AND IF YOU SAW SOME OF THE COVERAGE THAT WE PROVIDED OF THE MOST RECENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION, PARTICULARLY ON SB-150, THAT WENT VIRAL HER COMMENTS AGAINST THE SWEEPING ANTITRANS MESSAGE.

I WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT THE TYPE OF CANDIDATE THAT PAMELA STEVENSON WILL BE AND WILL WE SEE SOMEBODY AS VIVACIOUS IN HER PRESENTATION AS SHE DEMAND STRAIGHTED TONIGHT AND IS THAT A PLUS FOR HER.

>> I DON'T THINK WILL YOU SEE ANYONE AS VIVACIOUS AS COLONEL PAIM STEVENSON.

SHE IS FIERY, INTELLIGENT, CHARISMATIC.

SHE SPENT 27 YEARS OF HER CAREER AS A JAG LEGAL OFFICER IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE WHERE SHE WORKED TO PROTECT FAMILIES, MILITARY FAMILIES BY PROSECUTING VIOLENT CRIMES LIKE RAPE AND INCEST.

SHE HAS MOVED HOME TO KENTUCKY AND SHE HAS WORKED ON THOSE SERVICES ON THE OTHER SIDE, PRO BONO.

REPRESENTING THOSE MILITARY VETERANS WHO CAN'T AFFORD LEGAL SERVICES OTHERWISE.

THE ELDERLY, THE DISABLED MILITARY FOLKS PS SHE HAS AN AMAZING NAME I.D.

IN LOUISVILLE AND THROUGH HER SPIRY SPEECHES SHE IS GAINING TRACTION AND NAME I.D.

STATEWIDE AND BECAUSE OF HER DELIVER DELIVERY WILL GET A LOT OF ATTENTION.

>> I THINK REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO FOCUS THAT SHE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST LIBERAL MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

IT SHE HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF THAT.

SHE HAS SAID SHE WON'T DEFEND THE LAWS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE IF ATTORNEY GENERAL.

SHOEY TRIED TO PASS THE LAW TO REDEFINE THE WORD RIOT IN THE KENTUCKY STATUTE, COZIED UP TO THE DEFUND THE POLICE MOVEMENT SHE IS PROGRESSIVE AND UNAPOLOGETIC.

I HOPE SHE QEAPS FOR ANDY BESHEAR THAT THIS TICKET IS FAR MORE LIBERAL THAN THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW.

>> Renee: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT.

>> THE A.G. RACE WILL BE A GOOD ONE AND DRA YOU A LOT OF NATIONAL ATTENTION AND NATIONAL FUNDING, OUT OF STATE FUNDING.

I KNOW BOTH CANDIDATES.

THEY'LL PUT A LOT INTO IT AND IT WILL BE A DARN GOOD RACE TO KEEP UP WITH AND FOLLOW BECAUSE THEY WILL DEFINE THE ISSUES WELL AND OTHERS WILL SEEK TO DEFINE THEM ON TOP OF WHAT THEY SAY.

>> Renee: AL.

>> PAMELA STEVENSON IS AN IMPRESSIVE PERSON THROUGHOUT.

SHE IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO WIN THIS RACE, JUST BECAUSE OF THE TREND OF THE STATE.

BUT I THINK DEMOCRATS NEED SOMEBODY WHO CAN GO OUT THERE AND BE AN ADVOCATE AND YES, SHE MAY BE MORE LIBERAL THAN THEY NEED IN THE STATE BUT THE PARTY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A BENCH HERE AND SHE IS ONE OF THE STARS IN THE PARTY THAT IS FAIRLY.

>> RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR STATE TREASURER.

MARK MET CAMP-- MARK METCALF IS ON THE PHONE.

CAN YOU HEAR US.

>> YES.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME ON.

>> Renee: IT'S GOD TO HAVE YOU BY PHONE.

I'M SORRY WE DON'T HAVE YOU BY OTHER MEANS TONIGHT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH OUR STUDIO BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN HERE TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND OTHER ISSUES BEFORE.

SO CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR VICTORY TONIGHT TALK TO US ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN YOU RAN AND HOW YOU WILL PROCEED TO NOVEMBER.

>> THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.

REAL ESTATE WAN TO EXPLAIN THE POSITIONS WE HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING FROM THE BEGINNING AND THIS IS A JOB INVOLVING LEADERSHIP AND STEWARDSHIP AND WE MADE CLEAR THAT KENTUCKY BORROWS TOO MUCH, TAXES TOO MUCH AND SPENDS TOO MUCH AND IT SAVES TOO LITTLE.

AND THAT WAS OUR MESSAGE, CONTINUED TO BE OUR MESSAGE THROUGH THIS EVENING I AM GRATIFIED AND OVER JOYED BY THE WIN BUT A LOT OF WORK IN FRONT OF US IN THE FALL AND I INTEND TO BE AN ACTIVE AND ENERGETIC CAMPAIGNER FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND FOR RUNNING FOR THE STATE TREASURER'S OFFICE SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FALL RACE.

>> Renee: SO DURING THE CAMPAIGN WE SAW ADVERTISEMENTS WHERE YOU TOUTED YOURSELF AS A TRUMP REPUBLICAN, GIVEN ALL OF THE LEGAL WOES OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT DO YOU THIL CAMPAIGN ON THAT?

DO YOU SEE THAT NOT BEING AN ALBATROSS OR ABASSET?

>> I SEE IT-- I WOULD CONSIDER MYSELF ALSO TO BE A REAGAN REPUBLICAN AND A BUSH REPUBLICAN.

I WORKED IN PRESIDENT REAGAN'S CAMPAIGN IN 1980.

I CHAIRED THE REAGAN YOUTH DELEGATION FROM KENTUCKY TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THAT TIME WORKING FOR HAROLD ROGERS I WORKED IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S ADMINISTRATION AND CONSIDER MYSELF A BUSH REPUBLICAN ALSO.

IF EVER THERE WAS A PRESIDENT THAT STOOD TALL ON TERRORISM AND PROTECTED THE COUNTRY FROM FURTHER ATTACKS ON AMERICAN SOIL IT WAS BUSH.

I LOOK FORWARD TO CAMPAIGNING FOR THEM AND WITH THEM.

WE ARE HAVING PROBLEM WITH YOUR AUDIO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE GOING TO EMBRACE OTHER FORMER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS AND NOT JUST PRESIDENT TRUMP GOING FORWARD.

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE ALSO GOING TO TOUT YOUR AFFECTION FOR THE OTHER PRESIDENTS YOU MENTIONED.

>> THAT'S CORRECT AND I'M SORRY WE LOST THE HOOK UP BUT I WORKED FOR PRESIDENT REAGAN AND WORKED ON CAPITOL HILL FOR CONGRESSMAN ROGERS AND PRESIDENT REAGAN, I SERVED IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND I DID NOT SERVE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BUT I BELIEVE PRESIDENT TRUMP GOT A LOT OF GOOD THINGS DONE.

IF HE IS THE NOMINEE, I WILL PROUDLY CAMPAIGN WITH HIM AND FOR HIM.

THE SAME AS WOULD I IF IT IS GOVERNOR DeSANTIS OR WHOEVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINATES.

I AM, I BELIEVE AT THIS POINT, FEEL COMFORTABLE SAYING THAT ANY OF THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEES-FOR- PRESIDENT WOULD SERVE WELL AND DO BETTER THAN PRESIDENT BIDEN.

>> Renee: THANK YOU, Mr. METCALF.

I'M SURE WE WILL BE ENGAGING SOMETIME SOON IN THE FUTURE AND WE APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US TONIGHT FOR A FEW MINUTES AND ONCE AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS.

>> THANK YOU, RENEE.

>> ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO ADD ABOUT METCALFE, HE WAS THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR THAT THEN ATTORNEY GENERAL BESHEAR APPOINTED TO INVEST SECRETARY GRIMES.

AND THE IN HIS TIME AS-- HE DID NOT BRING CHARGES AT THE END OF THE INVESTIGATION.

BUT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT HE WAS APPOINTED SPECIAL COUNSEL.

>> Renee: IS IT ODD THAT HE IS RUNNING FOR STATE TREASURER GIVEN HIS BACKGROUND.

>> I THINK HE HAD ALREADY ENDORSED RUSSELL COLEMAN.

I THINK HE WOULD CONSIDER RUNNING IN THE RACE BUT ENDORSED RUSSELL AND, YOU KNOW, TREASURE ER IS AN OPEN SEAT.

>> Renee: AVAILABLE.

>> WHO AMONG US DIDN'T QUALIFIED TO BE STATE TREASURER.

IS HOOEY 30?

A REGISTERED ROTOR?

>> YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT WHAT MARK SAID, TRACING HIS LINEAGE BACK TO REAGAN.

THAT'S REALLY, I THINK, A KEY MESSAGE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME REPUBLICANS WHO THINK THAT PARTY EXISTS TO EXCOMMUNICATE PEOPLE THAT WE DON'T LIKE OR BECAUSE THEY COME FROM A DIFFERENT ERA.

THAT'S NOT THE WAY TO INWITH.

THAT'S NOT THE WAY TO WIN.

WHAT MARK'S MESSAGE IS I THINK SHOULD BE EMBRACED BY THE WHOLE TICKET.

WHILE WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TREASURER, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND OTHER OUTLETS CALLED THE AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER RACE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR JONATHAN SCHELL SITTING AT 57 AND CHANGE AND HEETDZ SITING AT 42.6.

AND ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, ENLOW HAS BEEN CALLED.

WE HAVE NOMINEES I THINK NOW IN EVERY OFFICE TONIGHT.

AND THAT WAS THE LAST ONE TO COME DOWN SO CONGRATS TO THOSE TWO.

>> Renee: I THINK WE HAVE RYAN QARLTS READY RIGHT NOW, I UNDERSTAND CONTROL ROOM.

YES, THERE HE IS.

HELLO COMMISSIONER, HOW ARE YOU?

>> GOOD EVENING.

NOT THE RESULT THAT WE WANTED BUT I'M PROUD THAT TONIGHT WE ARE ALL KENTUCKIANS.

I'M PROUD OF MY TEAM AND PROUD OF THE RACE THAT WE HAVE RUN.

>> Renee: LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU DID HAVE A SECOND PLACE FINISH, WHICH, YOU KNOW, SOME HAD THOUGHT MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE THIRD BLOOS THE CONSOLATION OF WHERE YOU DID LAND AND WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR RYAN QUARLES.

>> I'M PROUD WE RAN A RACE IN ALL 120 COUNTIES, INVESTED IN A GROOTS PROGRAM GRASSROOTS PROGRAM THAT BUILT OFF SERVING AS AG COMMISSIONER.

OVER 166,000 CONTACTS, 73,000 MILES, MANY OF WHICH WERE ON MY BIG RED TRUCK.

AND GUESS WHAT?

I HAD FUN TRAVELING THE COMMONWEALTH AND SO WE CAME UP A LITTLE BIT SHORT TONIGHT AND THAT'S OKAY.

I CALLED ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON AND WISHED HIM BEST AND WHAT IS NEXT FOR ME IS UP TO GOD.

WE'LL SAY A PRAYER AND SEE WHAT IS NEXT.

I'M A BIG BELIEVER WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES ANOTHER ONE OPENS.

>> Renee: I WANT TO HIT THE LAST POINT YOU MADE THAT YOU HAVE CALLED THE NOMINEE DANIEL CAMERON AND EXPRESSED YOUR CONGRATULATIONS AND THAT YOU WILL UNIFY BEHIND HIS QUEST TO BECOME GOVERNOR.

WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO BE UNIFIED BEHIND HIM?

WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT SUPPORT?

>> WELL, AS WITH OR ELECTIONS THIS ONE OBVIOUSLY WITH 12 PEOPLE IN THE RACE, IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CONSERVATIVED UNITE BEHIND THE NOMINEES OF ALL THE OFFICES.

I HAVE BEEN IN THOSE SHOES BEFORE AS THE NOMINEE FOR AG COMMISSIONER TWICE AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT WITH SUCH A HIGH PROFILE GOVERNOR'S RACE ONE OF ONLY THREE IN THE NATION THIS YOUR, THAT WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER TONIGHT TO WE WANT TO BEAT ANDY BESHEAR AS THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY.

FOR ME IT'S ABOUT LENDING SUPPORT.

I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH NOT JUST OUR NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR BUT THE OTHER OFFICES AS WELL AND SAY HOW CAN I HELP.

>> Renee: AL CROSS HAS A QUESTION COMMISSIONER, ARE YOU WILLING TO RUN AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ON THE CAMERON SLATE?

THANK YOU, AL.

I WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF YOU DIDN'T ASK THAT QUESTION TONIGHT.

I TALKED TO THE GENERAL AND SAID ENJOY YOUR EVENING.

THERE IS A LOT GOING ON TONIGHT FOR ME IT'S WHATEVER IS BETWEEN ME AND GOD, KEEPING MY OPPORTUNITIES OPEN.

WHO KNOWS WHAT IS NEXT IN LIFE.

>> Renee: WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION POSITION?

>> IT CAN'T BE ANY WORSE THAN WHAT WE GOT NOW RYAN, GO AHEAD, TELL THEM YES.

>> Renee: I MEAN YOU ARE A DOCTORATE IN EDUCATION.

>> YOU GO THE MORE DEGREES THAN EVERYBODY SITTING HERE COMBINED.

SIGN HIM UP YOU GOT TIME TO FIGURE IT OUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER RIGHT NOW.

>> SCOTT I WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE THAT COMMENT AS WELL TONIGHT.

WHO KNOWS WHAT IS NEXT.

I'M JUST BLESSED TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP ON A TOBACCO FARM AS SERVE AS STATE REP, AG COMMISSIONER AND HAVE THE CHANCE TO SERVE AS GOVERNOR.

I'M PROUD TO BE A KENTUCKIAN TONIGHT WHO KNOWS WHAT IS NEXT THE RACE TALKED ABOUT COMMISSIONER, I HAVE SUGGESTED THAT YOU WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE MORE IRINITIALS AFTER YOUR NAME THAN IN YOUR NAME.

PRETTY IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN AND OF ITSELF.

THAT MIGHT BE A DIRECTION FOR YOU.

I'M SURE YOU ARE CUT OUT FOR LEADERSHIP IN THE NEAR FUTURE BUT IF THAT WERE TO OPEN, I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD CHEER THAT ON.

>> THANK YOU, BOB, I PRODUCE EVERYBODY THAT.

LOOK, I'M JUST FOLLOWING THE STEPS OF MY MOM WHO SPENT 30 YEARS IN THE CLA IS ROOM.

GOT HER Ph.D. LATER IN LIFE.

FOR ME, I BELIEVE EDUCATION IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER IN LIFE.

IF YOU WORK HARD, APPLY YOURSELF, YOU BECOME ANYTHING YOU WANT IF LIFE AND I THINK THAT MY SERVICE TO KENTUCKY IS JUST GETTING STARTED.

WHO KNOWS IN WHAT CAPACITY.

I'M FLATTERED.

I DIDN'T KNOW TONIGHT WOULD BE A JOB INTERVIEW ON LIVE TV, BUT I'M JUST PROUD TO HAVE RUN A GREAT RACE AND WHO KNOWS WHAT IS NEXT.

BUT OUR STATE, OUR STATE NEEDS HELP AND WE'VE GOT TO GET PAST PARTISAN POLITICS AND START LOOKING AT WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR STATE.

I KNOW THAT WE NEED TO HAVE MORE LONG-TERM DECISION MAKING AND THINKING AND I'M HAPPY TO SERVE IN WHATEVER PUBLIC SERVICE CAPACITY BEST HELPS THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.

>> Renee: THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER QUARLES.

WE APPRECIATE YOU GIVING US SOME TIME THIS EVENING AND OUR BEST TO YOU THANK YOU.

GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS KENTUCKY.

>> I HAVE BEEN WATCHING, I MET HIM WHEN HE WAS IN COLLEGE, A COLLEGE REPUBLICAN AT U.K. BACK IN THE BEGINNING OF MY POLITICAL CAREER AND IT HAS BEEN GREAT WATCHING HIM PROGRESS PROFESSIONALLY AND I THINK WHAT RYAN NOW HAS TO FIGURE OUT, MAYBE HE WILL GET ASKED TO BE A RUNNING MATE.

RYAN HAS A LOT OF TALENT AND A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO GIVE AND I REMEMBER WHEN I HAD MY BAD PRIMARY NIGHT LIKE HE IS HAVING RIGHT NOW WHERE WE ENTERED THE RACE, THOUGHT WE COULD WIN, DIDN'T.

THE NEXT THING YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO, HOW DO YOU SERVE?

SOMETIMES BEING AN ELECTED OFFICIAL NOT THE BEST WAS I TO DO THAT.

THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO DO THAT.

I'M CONFIDENT WHATEVER RYAN DECIDES, HE IS GOING TO BE GREAT AND MAKE KENTUCKY AND THE COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE.

>> ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT HIM, HE IS AND HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS, ONE OF THE MOST WELL THOUGHT OF REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS IN THE STATE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR DANIEL CAMERON WHO WERE I'M SURE SAYING I LOVE RYAN QUARLES AS WELL.

WHEN YOU BUILD UP THAT GOOD WILL, IT ONLY PORTENDS GOOD THINGS IN THE FUTURE IF YOU WANT TO STAY IN THE REALM OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

HAVE I NO DOUBT ME WILL LAND ON HIS FEET.

AND IF HE DOESN'T, HEAL LAND ON A FARM SOMEWHERE BECAUSE HE IS A REAL FARMER AND HAS AN AMAZING LIFE EXPERIENCE OF IT.

>> Renee: SO RIGHT NOW SHELBY IN THE CONTROL ROOM, I THINK WE HAVE SOMEONE WAITING FOR US.

MARK PAIN WHO WAS WITH LINK NDY, PUBLICATION ONLINE AND MARK HAS BEEN ON KENTUCKY EDITION A FEW TRIEMS WITH US.

THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US THIS EVENING.

MARK, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.

SO YOU ARE IN THE NORTHERN... >> GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO, RENEE.

>> Renee: SORRY ABOUT THE SKYPE LAG.

I FORGET THERE IS A DELAY THERE.

YOU ARE IN THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA.

SO CAN YOU TALK TO US ABOUT-- AND GRAYSON JUST GAVE A MINI APPLAUSE, CAN YOU TALK TO US ABOUT HOW THE RACE UNFOLDED THERE.

YOU HAD A DEBATE WITH SOME OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR SO IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND HOW YOU SAW THE MOMENTUM AND MAYBE EVEN THE SHIFT TOWARDS DANIEL CAMERON THERE IN THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY REGION.

>> YEAH, I MEAN I THINK NORTHERN KENTUCKY WAS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF THE STATE.

HE DID REALLY WELL IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

IF YOU LOOK AT CAM CAMPBELL, KENTON AND BOONE COUNTIES HE PERFORMED 44%, 44 IN CAMPBELL, 55% IN KENTON, 48% IN BOON.

IF YOU LOOK BACK TO 2015 WHEN FORMER GOVERNOR MATT BEVIN DID REALLY WELL IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ONLY TO LOSE TO ANDY BESHEAR IN 2019 AND I THINK WITH GENERAL CAMERON DOING SO WELL IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY TONIGHT, I THAT COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.

I WAS REALLY LOOKING SPECIFICALLY OUT AT BOONE COUNTY TONIGHT LIBERTY REPUBLICANS TURNED OUT IN MASS IN THE 2022 PRIMARY WHEN THEY OUTED THREE POPULAR STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND THERE SEEMS TO BE A POTENTIAL FOR THOUGHT VOTE TO BE SLIGHT A LITTLE BIT THEIR FAVORITE FOR LIBERTY REPUBLICANS WAS SAVANNAH MADDOX, SHE DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE SO IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW TONIGHT WENT AND OF COURSE THAT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.

SOME OTHER REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE OF COURSE, SECRETARY OF STATE ADAMS WON THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION BUT STEVEN KNIPPER WON IN BOTH BOON AND KENTON COUNTIES.

>> >> Renee: I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT HOW THE COUNTIES FAIRED FOR KNIPPER OR SECRETARY ADAMS.

DO YOU PLAN ON HOSTING DEBATES IN THE FUTURE?

WHAT IS YOUR PLAN FOR OF COURSER OF THE GOVERNOR IN THE DOWNBALLOT RACES GOING FORWARD?

WE.

>> WE WOULD BE OPEN TO HOSTING A DEBATE.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY SET PLANS RIGHT NOW BUT WE HAVE A DEMOCRATIC SECRETARY OF STATE CANDIDATE IN BUDDY WHEATLEY WHO IS GOING TO FACE MICHAEL ADAMS IN THE GENERAL ELECTION SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE WILL KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER AND INTO THE FALL.

>> Renee: THANK YOU, MARK PAIN, WE APPRECIATE YOU WITH LINK NKY AND TALKING WITH YOU SOON.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT.

>> THANK YOU, RENEE.

>> CAN I FOLLOW UP ON A COUPLE THINGS MARK SAID.

>> Renee: SURE,.

>> A MICROCOSM IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY, CAMERON HAD A WIDE RANGE OF SUPPORT, CHRIS WEISE, A PROMINENT FOCUSED ATTORNEY ENDORSED HIM.

IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE PICTURES IN THE RALLIES IN THE LEADUP TO THE ELECTION, A NUMBER OF LIBERTY FOCUSED ACTIVISTS WHO WERE SUPPORTING CAMERON, ALONG WITH MAYBE TRADITIONAL ESTABLISHMENT McCONNELL BUSH TYPE REPUBLICANS.

THE OTHER THING INTERESTING ABOUT NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

ANDY BESHEAR WON KENTON AND BOON WHEN YOU AGGREGATE THE THREE TOGETHER.

HE WON KENTON AND CAMPBELL BY MORE THAN HE LOST BOON.

AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE COALITION.

THAT SUBURBAN BLEED WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER THIS EVENING SO CAMERON'S STRONG SUPPORT IN THE REGION GTS HIM OFF TO A STRONG SUPPORT NORTHERN KENTUCKY VOTES FOR DEMOCRATS, THE DEMOCRAT WINS.

ERNIE FLETCHER DID POORLY WHEN HE LOST REELECTION, SO DID MATT BEVIN.

CAMERON HAS TO MAKE THE INROADS AMONG THE VOTERS, THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS IN THE SUBURBS.

AND KNIPPER IS FROM NORTHERN KENTUCKY SO THE FACT THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF BASIS SUPPORT COVINGTON GRADUATE.

THE BOONE COUNTY AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE MORE EXTREME ELEMENTS OF THE PARTY AND CENSURED ADAMS FOR HIS PERFORMANCE IN OFFICE AND SO WHILE HE LOST KENTON AND BOON, I THINK I SAW THE KENTON MARGIN WAS 60 VOTES, ESSENTIAL WILL I A TIE.

AND AS WE TALKED ABOUT, ADD ADAMS SWEPT THE REST OF THE STATE.

>> Renee: AL, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING HIVE SOMEBODY HAD THEIR HAND RAISED.

>> THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY RESULTS WE SHOULD PROBABLY NOTE THAT ERIC DETERS RAN PRETTY WELL IN SOME OF THE COUNTIES AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY COUNTIES.

FINISHED SECOND IN GRANT, CAROL AND GALLIVAN AND BOOB BOON WAS THIRD, KENTON WAS THIRD AND CAMPBELL HE WAS THIRD.

>> ERIC LIVES IN SOUTHERN KENTON, HIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME.

HIS DAD WAS A PROMINENT LAWYER, GRAD FATHER WAS A PROMINENT LAWYER AND BUSINESSMAN, HIS UNCLE WAS A PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN.

THE DRAW BRIDGE INN, HIS LATE UNCLE WAS OTHER THAN OF THAT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ERIC.

HE MAY HAVE LOST VOTES BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW ERIC BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW HIM AND LIKE HIS STYLE AND HE DOES APPEAL TO THE RURAL ELEMENT AND THAT'S WHERE HE HAD HIS FREEDOM FEST WAS IN SOUTHERN KENTON COUNTY.

I'M GLAD YOU POINTED OUT THE SOUTHERN PART OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

THAT'S HIS BASE.

>> IN SUMMARY NORTHERN KENTUCKY IS VERY IMPORTANT... >> THANKS, BOB.

[LAUGHTER] >> WHERE DID YOUR WIFE GROW UP.

>> I HAVE FAMILY TIES IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

>> Renee: ONE FOR THE HOME TEAM.

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE SOME TAPE FROM BUDDY WHEATLEY, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE.

A PORTION OF HIS REMARKS.

>> MY VISION WILL MAKE ELECTIONS MORE ACCESSIBLE AND SECURITY FOR ALL KENTUCKIANS I WILL WORK TIRELESSLY FOR TWO FULL WEEKS OF EARLY VOTING KENTUCKY'S CONSTITUTION ALLOWS OUR POLLS TO BE OPEN UNTIL 7 P.M.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS CLOSING THE DOORS AT 6 P.M., CLOSING THE DOORS ON WORKING KENTUCKIANS WHO JUST WANTED TO VOTE.

ANOTHER THINGLY NOT ALLOW TO HAPPEN AS THE SECRETARY OF STATE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.

THE 2022 ELECTION WE SAW POLLING PLACES WITH LONG LINES.

THE DRASTIC REDUCTION OF POLLING LOCATIONS RESULTED IN THE WORST TURNOUT IN 30 YEARS BUT ON A MORE PESSIMISTIC NOTE I DO WANT TO REALLY RECOGNIZE THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE CROWD HERE TONIGHT.

[ CHEERING ] AND AROUND THE STATE.

AND IT'S REALLY ENCOURAGING TO SEE THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING MORE INVOLVED IN OUR POLITICS, MORE REGISTERED VOTERS, THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING AND VERY GOOD FOR OUR DEMOCRACY.

THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE BUT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THE OPPOSING PARTY IS COMING UP WITH SCHEMES TO MAKE IT HARDER TO VOTE ON OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES BY REDUCING POLLOW INDICATIONS.

I WILL BE A SECRETARY OF STATE THAT RESPECTS THE VOICE OF YOUNG VOTERS AND PROTECTS FORCEFULLY YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR ELECTIONS.

PEEP WHILE, THE CURRENT SECRETARY OF STATE ADAMS IS TREATING THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S JOB LIKE A PART-TIME JOB.

HE IS MOONLIGHTING WORKING AS AN ATTORNEY, HIS LAW PRACTICE FOR SOME OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICANS AND ELECTION DENIERS, YES, HE IS.

HE SAYS THAT HE DOESN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY'RE SAYING BUT HE DOES PROFIT FROM THEIR RHETORIC AND THEIR POLICIES.

NOT GOOD.

I'M AN ATTORNEY WHO WORKS FOR FIRST RESPONDERS.

AND NOW AS YOUR DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE I AM READY TO RELEASE MY FULL LIST OF CLIENTS AND I AM CALLING ON MICHAEL ADAMS TO DO THE SAME.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> KENTUCKIANS DESERVE TO KNOW WHO MICHAEL ADAMS IS WORKING FOR OUTSIDE OF THE STATE WHEN HE SHOULD BE WORKING FOR US RIGHT HERE IN KENTUCKY.

>> Renee: SO THAT IS CHARLES BUDDY WHEATLEY, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR KENTUCKY SECRETARY OF STATE.

HE DID NOT HAVE A CONTEST BUT HE IS NOW THE OFFICIAL NOMINEE.

SO MORGAN EAVES TALK TO US ABOUT BUDDY WHEATLY.

>> AS HE SAID PREVIOUSLY TWO TERM FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LIFE LONG NORTHERN KENTUCKIAN.

FAMILY HAS BEEN THERE FOR GENERATIONS.

RETIRED PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTER, LAWYER, FORMER JOURNALIST.

HE HAS A GREAT HEFTY RESUME AND HE HAS A POINT ABOUT SECRETARY ADAMS.

SECRETARY ADD AMOUNTS DID NOT DISCLOSE HIS CLIENT LIST UNTIL THE MEDIA REPORTED ON IT.

DOES KENTUCKY DESERVE TRANSPARENCY PARTICULARLY FROM OUR SECRETARY OF STATE?

ABSOLUTELY.

>> Renee: BUT WHAT HE IS DOING IS NOT ILLEGAL, RIGHT?

>> CORRECT IT'S NOT ILLEGAL BUT DOES IT CALL INTO QUESTION ETHICS QUESTIONS?

YES.

AS AN ATTORNEY, IT DOES AND SO HIS CALL IS NOT UNPRECEDENT AND IT'S NOT REALLY ONE THAT SHOULD BE ARGUED WITH.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE TRANSPARENT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A SECOND JOB.

>> Renee: NO OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS HAVE A MOONLIGHTING GIG SO IT'S NOT REALLY TYPICAL SCOTT JENNINGS.

AND THE OPTICS MAY NOT LOOK SO GOOD FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

>> HE WAS APPOINTED HEAD OF THE STATE AGENCY AND GOT FIRED FROM IT.

SOMETIMES THEY DO OTHER JOBS.

BUT LOOK, HE IS FOLLOWING ALL THE LAWS AND ETHICAL GUIDELINES WE HAVE IN KENTUCKY AND I HAVE NOT HEARD A SINGLE PERSON TONIGHT OR EVER SAY HERE IS HOW MIKE ADAMS IS SCREWING UP THE JOB OF SECRETARY OF STATE.

WHAT I DO HEAR REPEATEDLY FROM DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS AND EVERYBODY ELSE, THIS GUY HAS DONE THE JOB THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE I HEAR NO CRITICISM WHATSOEVER OF HIS PERFORMANCE IN OFFICE AND THAT'S WHAT SHOULD MATTER TO VOTERS I KNOW BUDDY WHEATLEY THINKS WE SHOULD ALL WORK FOR THE GOVERNOR FULL TIME THE REST OF OUR LIVES BUT IF YOU ARE DOING THE JOB AND MEETING THE ETHICAL AND LEGAL OBLIGATION AS PEOPLE ARE HAPPY WITH YOU, THAT'S A HOLLOW CRITICISM.

>> FOUR YEARS AGO HE RAN IN A RACE THAT WE ALL AGREED THAT IT WAS AN UPSET.

MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT SHE WOULD WIN THAT RACE AND HE IS A STRONGER CANDIDATE TODAY THAN FOUR YEARS AGO.

HE IS A HUMAN BEING, NOT PERFECT.

WE HAVE BEEN RAISE PRAISING HIM A LOT.

HE IS NO THE PERFECT BUT HE HAS GOT A RECORD THAT HE CAN RUN ON AND HIS SLOGAN FOUR YEARS AGO WAS EASY TO VOTE, HARD TO CHEAT.

HE CAN RUN ON THE PHOTO I.D.

LAW PASSED POPULAR, BIPARTISAN POPULAR ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND HE DID AS HE SAID, THE FIRST LEGISLATURE TO ADD EARLY VOTER CENTERS IN THE COMMONWEALTH.

HE PLAYED A ROLE IN THE LEGISLATIVE PASSAGE SO THAT'S A GOOD RECORD TO RUN ON WHEATLEY IS GOING TO RUN A SPIRITED CAMPAIGN.

HE IS QUALIFIED AND HAS BEEN AROUND POLITICS AND THE ISSUES SO HE WILL BE A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

THIS SHOULD BE A COMFORTABLE ONE GIVEN THE OVERALL POLITICAL NATURE OF THE STATE AND LOOKING AT FOUR YEARS AGO.

>> Renee: AL CROSS.

>> I CAN'T DISAGREE WITH THAT.

NOTABLE THAT HE GOT NATIONAL ATTENTION FROM NBC NEWS AND I THINK PEOPLE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL ARE SO ACCUSTOMED TO ELECTION DENIERS BEING TOLERATED OR IN SOME CASES EVEN PREVAILING IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTIES AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT STORY.

>> Renee: RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THE PHONE WITH US, I BELIEVE, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER JOHN THAN SCHELL.

HE IS ON THE PHONE.

THANK YOU Mr. SCHELL FOR BEING WITH US AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR VICTORY THIS EVENING.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND YOU KNOW, JUST HAPPY IT'S DONE, THE PRIMARY IS OVER.

>> Renee: TELL US WHAT WAS THE SECRET SAUCE HERE?

HOW DID YOU GET OVER THE HUMP AND RICHARD HEATH TRAILED YOU I THINK YOU HAVE 56.7 TO HIS 43.3% OF THE VOTE.

TALK TO US ABOUT HOW YOU CAME VICTORIA YAWS TONIGHT.

>> IT'S NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT ME.

WE HAVE BUILT A COALITION OF CONSERVATIVES ACROSS THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WHO LOVE THIS STATE, LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER WITH OUR GROUND GAME AND PEOPLE IN THE 120 COUNTIES THAT CARE ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS PRETTY AMAZING TO ME.

I'M IN AWE OF IT MYSELF.

IT'S NOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME.

IT'S ABOUT TO DO WITH THE PEOPLE WHO CASTLY VOTES TODAY WHO DONATED THEIR TIME AND MONEY AND I'M GRATEFUL.

>> Renee: TELL US WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE ELECTIONED AG COMMISSIONER.

RYAN QUARLES HAS DONE A LOT IN HIS TWO TERMS.

WHAT WOULD YOU CONTINUE AND WHAT WOULD YOU FIGHT TO DO MORE OF WHEN IT COMES TO THE AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY.

>> WE HAVE HAD TWO AMAZING AGO COMMISSIONER, EXPWRAIMY COMER, THE MOST FAMOUS CONGRESSMAN IN THE COUNTRY AND RYAN QUARLES HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB KEEPING THE STATE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK ME THAT QUESTION AND I ALWAYS TELL THEM THIS IS NOT A CHANGE ELECTIONMENT THIS IS HOW CAN WE CONTINUE THE PATH OF EXCELLENCE THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOWN AND PUT OUR OWN TOUCH ON IT.

AND OUR TOUCH IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE THIS.

WE ARE GOING TO PUT A HYPER FOCUS ON AG PRODUCTION IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE CREATING KENTUCKY JOBS WITH KENTUCKY BUSINESSES THAT ARE REFINING, REFINISHING AND PROCESSING OUR AG COMMODITIES IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WHETHER IT BE OUR CORN, BEANS, WHEAT, CHICKEN, CATTLE.

WE ARE GOING TO WORK ON HYPERFOCUS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE IN KENTUCKY.

SECONDLY I HAVE A NON-FARM RETAIL BUSINESS ITSELF.

GETTING OUR CONSUMERS FROM THE FARM GATE TO THE FOOD GATE, OUR FARMERS ARE PROFITABLE AND OUR CONSUMERS ARE EDUCATED AND KNOW WHERE THEIR FOOD IS COMING FROM AND THE THIRD ONE IS BEING THE VOICE FOR KENTUCKY, THE VOICE FOR RURAL KENTUCKY, THE VOICE FOR HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES, GETTING FRESHER HEALTHIER FOODS ON THE FRONT END FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS SO THAT WE'VE GOT A HEALTHY STRONG KENTUCKY AND WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING PEOPLING THAT A HEALTHY KENTUCKY IS A STRONG KENTUCKY AND THAT'S WAS WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS ON.

>> Renee: THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND SOME SUGGESTED MORE EMPHASIS FOR THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY FOR FARMERS ON TO HAVE MORE INPUT AND A PLACE TO GROW MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

IS THAT SOMETHING YOU SUPPORT AND WOULD YOU PUSH FOR THAT IN THE NEXT SESSION OF THE KENTUCKY GENERAL ASSEMBLY?

IF THERE IS AN ABILITY FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO WORK ON IT.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT WE TALK ABOUT AGRICULTURE NOW.

IS THAT BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THE AG INDUSTRY, THAT'S WHAT THEY FOCUS ON ARE THESE TYPES OF ISSUES THAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THAT ARE COMPTROLLER.

HEMP MARIJUANA BUT WE ARE 15th IN THE COUNTRY IF CORNS, BEANS, WE ARE EIGHTH IN THE COUNTRY IN BEEF CATTLE.

AND WE ARE FIRST EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

WE'VE GOT AN ENORMOUS IMPACT IN THE WORLD WITH OUR AGRICULTURE HERE IN THE STATE.

WE ARE GOING TO HYPER FOCUS THOSE THINGS AND IF THERE IS OPPORTUNITIES FOR FARMERS WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA, WE'LL WORK ON THAT.

IT'S IN THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILIES SERVICES WE NEED IT REGULATED VIGOROUSLY AND MAKING SURE WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS WITH IT AND IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TO US PUT OUR HANDS ON IT, WE WILL.

>> Renee: AL CROSS, YOU HAVE A QUESTION.

>> JONATHAN, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR VICTORY.

YOU WERE ONE OF THE CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT TODAY WHO HAS BEEN CLOSE TO SENATOR McDONNELL BUT BUT-- McCONNELL BUT WHO DIDN'T MENTION HIS NAME AT ALL DURING THE CAMPAIGN.

DO YOU THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO YOUR ADVANTAGE OR DISADVANTAGES TO HAVE TOLD PEOPLE IN TV ADS OR RADIO ADS THAT YOU ARE AN ALLY OF THE SENATE?

-- OF THE SENATOR.

>> I'M MY OWN MAN.

I DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT QUESTION.

I WILL BE HONEST WITH YOU.

I DON'T RECOGNIZE THE QUESTION YOU ARE ASKING BECAUSE WHAT I FOUGHT FOR WAS MYSELF TONIGHT I WORKED AND I GOT SUPPORT BEHIND FOR MYSELF WITH PIE PEOPLE AND THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.

THEY VOTED FOR ME.

THEY DIDN'T VOTE FOR SOMEBODY ELSE NCHTS IF THERE IS OPPORTUNITIES FOR ME TO WORK WITH ANY POLITICIAN IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, I'M NEVER GOING TO BAD MOUTH PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY FRIENDS AND PEOPLE THAT I'VE WORKED WITH.

I'M GOING TO BE MY OWN MAN.

I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN EVER SINCE I RAN MY FIRST ELECTION AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO.

>> Renee: JONATHAN SCHELL, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR AG COMMISSIONER, WE THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN OUR PROGRAM TONIGHT.

ONCE AGAIN OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU.

AND WE WILL BE IN TOUCH.

THAT I'M MY OWN MAN CAME FROM DANIEL CAMERON A COUPLE TIMES.

RIGHT?

>> TWO THOUGHTS.

MY OWN MAN THING REMINDS ME, I DON'T KNOW WHO ACTUALLY SAID THIS, IF YOU WANT ME TO BE FOR YOU I WILL BE FOR YOU.

IF YOU WANT ME AGAINST YOU, I WILL BE AGAINST YOU.

>> LOUIS.

>> AND McCONNELL IS LIKE THAT, IF YOU BABT TO TALK ABOUT IT GREAT, GREAT.

IF YOU WANT TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST ME, WIN.

SECOND THING IS THIS IS AN INTERESTING COMEBACK STORY.

SCHELL WAS A ON A ROCKETSHIP, HE WAS A VERY YOUNG MEMBER OF THE KENTUCKY GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FLOOR LEADER WHEN THE REPUBLICANS TOOK OVER AND HE WAS HUMBLED AND LOST REELECTION THE NEXT YEAR IN THE PRIMARY.

>> Renee: TO AN EDUCATOR.

>> I THINK HE PROBABLY LOST A LITTLE FOCUS ON HIS DISTRICT AS HE WAS OUT RECRUITING CANDIDATES TO RUN IN 2016 AND THEN RUNNING THE PARTY IN FENT 18, HE GOT HUMBLED.

CAME BACK AND RAN A GOOD CAMPAIGN.

THE FIRST THING HE TALKED ABOUT IS HIS VALUE ADDED PROCESSING FOR THE AG COMMUNITY.

SOMETHING WE ALWAYS STRUGGLE WITH.

WE HAVE GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES BUT TOO OFTEN OUR WOOD GOES TO NORTH CAROLINA TO GET TURNED INTO FURNITURE AND I WAS GLAD TO HEAR HIM MENTION THAT IT IS SOMETHING IF WE WANT TO ADD MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO OUR RURAL AREAS BRINGING THOSE VALUE ADDED PROCESSES TO THE COMMONWEALTH IS A GREAT STRATEGY WE HAVE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER, SHE MADE THESE COMMENTS A MOMENT AGO.

HERE IS A MINUTE OF WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY.

>> RAPIDLY GROWING ECONOMY.

SCRKT FARMERS DON'T NEED A COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE TO TEACH THEM HOW TO FARM BUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPER TO OPEN NEW DOORS AND THAT'S WHAT I WILL DO.

TO THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THE RACE TRYING TO OUTDO EACH OTHER WITH THE FAR RIGHT RHETORIC, HAVE I TO TELL YOU, FARMING HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT THE SOUL OF KENTUCKY.

IT'S FAR TOO IMPORTANT FOR SHALLOW AND DIVISIVE POLITICS.

TO MY NEW OPPONENT, WANT TO SAY THIS, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WOKE FARMING.

I CHALLENGE YOU TO RUN FOR THE JOB NOT FOR POLITICAL POINTS.

DO NOT USE THE JOB CONSTITUTIONALLY ASSIGNED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AS A STEPPING STONE TO ANOTHER JOB YOU FIND MORE INTERESTING.

I AM RUNNING THIS RACE TO WORK ON BEHALF OF KENTUCKIANS WHO DESERVE TO SEE KENTUCKY'S AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE DRIVE KENTUCKY'S ECONOMIC SUCCESSES.

AND I CHALLENGE YOU TO DO THE SAME.

KENTUCKY JUST... >> Renee: AND WE'LL HAVE ALL OF THOSE SPEECHES AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE.

WE ARE SORRY FOR THE ABBREVIATED NATURE OF THAT ONE AND THE ONES WE HAVE SHOWN YOU THEY WILL BE ON OUR WEBSITE ket.org.

WE WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THESE SPECIAL ELECTION HELD FOR DISTRICT 28.

WE KNOW THE REPUBLICAN GREG ELKINS IS THE VICTOR IN THAT WAYS AND A COUPLE OF WET DRY VOTES THAT HAPPENED TODAY ALLEN COUNTY IT IS WET AND RICHMOND REGISTER MADISON COUNTY IS ALSO WET.

SOY THAT TIES EVERYTHING UP FOR US TONIGHT.

>> THE SPURS WON THE DRAFT LOTTERY ALSO.

>> Renee: CAN'T GET IT ALL IN.

>> 20% SHOWS YOU WHAT A WET DRY WILL DO SO WITH TWO MINUTES REMAINING AL CROSS, I ALWAYS ASK YOU TO WRITE US A HEADLINE FOR TOMORROW.

HAVE AT IT.

>> CAMERON EMERGES FROM PRIMARY AS STRONG VICTOR.

I MEAN LOOK AT THE RESULT.

HE IS BEATING THE NEXT THE SECOND PLACE CANDIDATE BY MORE THAN TWO TO ONE AND I WROTE A COLUMN RECENTLY THAT SAID ONE OF THE QUESTIONS IN THE PRIMARY WAS CAN YOU BUY THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR.

AND THE ANSWER IS NO IF YOU CAN'T REALLY PRESENT YOURSELF AS BEING GUBERNATORIAL MATERIAL.

AND WHILE KELLY CRAFT WORKED VERY HARD, SHE NEVER QUITED MADE THAT SALE.

>> Renee: SO WE ARE SHOWING THE MAP HOW THINGS TURNED OUT IN THAT RACE.

THE RESULTS ARE ON THE MAP.

>> TAYLOR COUNTY IS MAX WEISS' COUNTY.

HE GOT MONROE COUNTY, BARREN COUNTY AND CLINTON COUNTY.

MY BROTHER IN THE CIRCUIT COURT CLERK WORKED IT REAL HARD.

>> Renee: WELL, TO BE CONTINUED FOLKS, WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU BEING WITH US THIS EVENING.

WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THOSE WHO WERE IN THE FIELD WITH US, CHIP, CASEY PARKER-BELL, AND A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO THE CREW YOU DON'T SEE, CAMERA GUYS, THE FOLKS IN THE CAMERA ROOM, THANKS TO THEM.

AND THANKS TO YOU FOR JOINING US ON KENTUCKY EDITION TOMORROW WE WILL HAVE A SYNOPSIS OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE TONIGHT OF COURSE ON COMMENT ON KENTUCKY AT 8 CLK EASTERN, BILL BRYANT AND WORKING CREW OF JOURNALISTS WILL PROVIDE ANALYSIS OF THE RACE TOP TO BOTTOM AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE MATCHUPS IN NOVEMBER.

JOIN US ON KENTUCKY TONIGHT THIS COMING MONDAY NIGHT.

LOTS HAPPENING ON KET WHERE WE ALSO DO ANOTHER MOST MORTEM OF THE PRIMARY ELECTION AND LOOK AHEAD TO NOVEMBER.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING KET YOUR CHOICE FOR ELECTION COVERAGE.

I'M RENEE SHAW.

TAKE REALLY GOOD CARE AND I WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW EVENING AT 6:30 FOR KENTUCKY EDITION.