{"id":1932813,"date":"2023-05-17T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsed-daniel-cameron-wins-kentucky-gop-primary-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:41:02","slug":"trump-endorsed-daniel-cameron-wins-kentucky-gop-primary-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsed-daniel-cameron-wins-kentucky-gop-primary-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Endorsed Daniel Cameron Wins Kentucky GOP Primary for Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-endorsed-daniel-cameron-wins-kentucky-gop-primary-for-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Daniel Cameron, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination in the Kentucky gubernatorial race on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> He now faces incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, in the November general election. Beshear is seeking his second term as governor.<\/p>\n<p> Cameron, a former legal counsel to Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), currently serves as Kentucky\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p> He announced his bid for governor last year and emerged victorious over 11 other candidates.<\/p>\n<p> Among the candidates was Kelly Craft, who served as the United Nations ambassador in the Trump administration, and had secured a\u00a0last-minute endorsement from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p> Also among the candidates were Kentucky\u2019s agriculture commissioner, Ryan Quarles, state auditor Mike Harmon, and Somerset Mayor Alan Keck.<\/p>\n<p> There were no reports of voting disruptions, even though storm warnings were issued in some areas in the state, according to the secretary of state\u2019s office. Turnout was light in many locations due to rain across much of the state during part of the day, the office noted.<\/p>\n<p>  Voters wait in line to check in at their polling location during Kentucky Primary Elections at Deer Park Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., on May 16, 2023. (Jon Cherry\/Getty Images) During his campaign, Cameron\u00a0emphasized his record in office, reminding voters of his lawsuits against Beshear and the Biden administration over abortion, immigration, and COVID-19 policies.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cVery first. Freedom in our constitution is the freedom of religion. But Governor Beshear ignored the constitution and shut churches down,\u201d Cameron said in his first television campaign ad, referring to the lockdown spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSo I took [Beshear] to court and fought to reopen churches so we could come together for worship. Kentucky deserves a governor who respects our laws and our freedoms,\u201d Cameron said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cA governor who knows only liberty creates prosperity and only faith can keep us strong \u2026 that\u2019s exactly the kind of governor I will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Cameron successfully challenged Beshear\u2019s COVID-era restrictions and halted them.<\/p>\n<p> If elected, he would become the state\u2019s first black governor. He is already the state\u2019s first black attorney general.<\/p>\n<p> Cameron played up the historic nature of his nomination in his victory speech on Tuesday, saying his campaign aims to \u201cembody the promise of America, that if you work hard and if you stand on principle, anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTo anyone who looks like me, know that you can achieve anything,\u201d he told his supporters. \u201cKnow that in this country and in Kentucky, all that matters are your values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, standing next to his wife Britainy Beshear, speaks after surveying storm damage from tornadoes and extreme weather in Dawson Springs, Ky., on Dec. 15, 2021. (Andrew Harnik\/AP Photo) Beshear had asserted that his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic saved lives, and that he looked closely to guidance that came from Trump\u2019s\u00a0coronavirus task force.\u00a0During the pandemic, Beshear held daily pandemic briefings for months.<\/p>\n<p> Later, following tornados in 2021 and floods in 2022 in the state, Beshear led relief efforts to help those affected.<\/p>\n<p> In April, Beshear publicly grieved the loss of a close friend who died in a mass shooting in which a bank employee in Louisville fatally shot\u00a0fiv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cameron, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination in the Kentucky gubernatorial race on Tuesday. He now faces incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, in the November general election. Beshear is seeking his second term as governor. Cameron, a former legal counsel to Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":1932814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7646,8488,6203,4173,12830,4909,26439,5745],"class_list":["post-1932813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-cameron","tag-daniel","tag-gop","tag-governor","tag-kentucky","tag-primary","tag-trump-endorsed","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}