{"id":2021072,"date":"2023-09-03T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentuckys-democratic-governor-wont-commit-to-replacing-mcconnell-with-a-republican\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:26:37","slug":"kentuckys-democratic-governor-wont-commit-to-replacing-mcconnell-with-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentuckys-democratic-governor-wont-commit-to-replacing-mcconnell-with-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"KY Governor won&#8217;t promise GOP replacement for McConnell."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fkentuckys-democratic-governor-wont-commit-to-replacing-mcconnell-with-a-republican%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=2021072&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--><h2>Governor Beshear Noncommittal About Replacing Senator McConnell \u200cwith Another Republican<\/h2>\n<p>Governor \u2062Andy\u2064 Beshear (D-KY) has so far not committed to replacing\u200d Senator \u200dMitch\u2064 McConnell (R-KY) with another Republican, should the Senate Minority Leader\u2019s health become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-national-intelligence-director-im-concerned-about-bidens-china-policies-not-backed-by-intel\/\" title=\"Former National Intelligence Director: \u2018I\u2019m Concerned\u2019 About Biden\u2019s China Policies, Not Backed By Intel\">persistent problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is no Senate vacancy.\u2063 Senator McConnell has\u200c said he\u2019s going to serve out his \u200bterm, and I believe him, so I\u2019m not \u2064going to speculate about something that hasn\u2019t happened and isn\u2019t going to happen,\u201d Beshear said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The governor\u2019s comments come amid speculation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-senator-provides-update-on-mcconnell-after-second-freeze-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McConnell\u2019s health<\/a> and calls for his resignation after he froze up on camera on at \u2062least two instances. But McConnell, who recently suffered a \u2064concussion as \u2064the result \u200bof a fall, has said that he has simply \u200dexperienced a few brief moments of light-headedness.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-promoted-idea-that-trump-loyalists-might-have-killed-capitol-police-officer-one-month-later-they-issue-significant-update\/\" title=\"NYT Promoted Idea That Trump Loyalists Might Have Killed Capitol Police Officer. One Month Later, They Issue Significant Update.\">good shape<\/a>,\u201d\u200d Senator\u200d Mike Rounds \u2064(R-S.C.) said. \u201cHe\u200c was \u2062direct. He said he \u200cfell. He said, \u2018I had\u200b that concussion.\u2019 And he said, \u2062\u2018They warned me that I would be lightheaded in the future \u2063and that I\u2063 have got to be aware of it.\u2019 He said, \u2018It happened \u200btwice.\u2019 He \u200csaid, \u2018It just so happens I\u2019m doing it in front of reporters.\u2019 But he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentuckys-democratic-governor-wont-commit-to-replacing-mcconnell-with-a-republican\/\" title=\"KY Governor won't promise GOP replacement for McConnell.\">felt good yesterday<\/a>. \u200bHe said he\u2019s got to watch his hydration levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But should \u2062McConnell\u2064 choose to vacate\u200d his seat, Beshear is\u2064 bound by a <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.legislature.ky.gov\/recorddocuments\/bill\/21RS\/sb228\/bill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 law<\/a> to replace him with a member of\u200c his own party \u200b\u2014 a\u200b law\u2063 that\u200d was passed over Beshear\u2019s protests and his veto.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Beshear\u2019s complaint was \u2062that the law,\u200d which also lays out the procedure for special elections, was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill therefore upends a \u2064century of precedent by delegating the power to select the representative\u2062 of\u2062 all Kentuckians \u200cto an unelected, unaccountable \u2064committee of an organization that represents only a fraction of Kentuckians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) remains noncommittal on replacing Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) if his health issues persist. Beshear avoided addressing a potential Senate vacancy, highlighting that McConnell has not shown any intention to retire before his term ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2021073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2021072","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}