With the final hours before Nov. 7’s Election Day drawing near in the contentious and pivotal Kentucky gubernatorial race and a Nov. 3 poll showing the candidates in a dead heat, Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican challenger Daniel Cameron are frenetically crossing the state on bus tours and making their final pitches to voters.
The son of former two-term Democrat Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, Mr. Beshear was elected by a slim margin in 2019 when he defeated incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin by about 5,000 votes. Kentucky has a Republican super-majority in the state Legislature, and President Donald Trump won the state by 26 percentage points in 2020, but Mr. Beshear was rated the nation’s most popular Democrat governor in a July poll conducted by Morning Consult.
