{"id":2054856,"date":"2023-10-04T06:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-derby-kentucky-governors-race-could-deliver-democrats-latest-abortion-win\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T06:42:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:42:31","slug":"democracy-derby-kentucky-governors-race-could-deliver-democrats-latest-abortion-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-derby-kentucky-governors-race-could-deliver-democrats-latest-abortion-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky governor&#8217;s race may bring Democrats another abortion victory in Democracy Derby."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdemocracy-derby-kentucky-governors-race-could-deliver-democrats-latest-abortion-win%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=2054856&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>All eyes \u200dmay be on 2024, but 2023 \u200dis an important election year for some states, not \u2063least Kentucky.<\/h2>\n<p>Top of the card is Gov.\u2064 Andy Beshear, \u2064and whether the Democrat incumbent can win again \u200cin a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-derby-how-mcconnells-health-raises-stakes-of-kentucky-governors-race\/\" title=\"McConnell's health intensifies Kentucky governor's race.\">typically red state<\/a>, potentially launching himself into the \u20632028 presidential conversation. This \u2063Washington Examiner\u200b series, <strong>Democracy Derby<\/strong>, \u200bwill take a closer look at Beshear&#8217;s\u2062 prospects, \u2063the make-up of the Bluegrass State as a whole, and\u200d whether\u2062 Sen. \u200bMitch McConnell&#8217;s health may raise the stakes.<\/p>\n<h3>If \u200dDemocrats \u2063manage to keep the governorship in one of the reddest states\u2062 in the blue \u2062column this November, Hadley Duvall will be a name to remember.<\/h3>\n<p>Duvall is\u2064 featured in an ad for Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) assailing\u200d his GOP challenger, \u2062state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, on abortion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Duvall tells\u200c the story about being raped \u2064by her stepfather when she was just\u200d 12 years old.\u200d She became pregnant while in the seventh grade. \u2064She eventually miscarried\u2064 but is speaking out against no-exceptions\u200b abortion bans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who believes there should be no exceptions \u2063for \u200brape \u200dand incest could never understand what it\u2019s like to \u2062stand in my shoes,\u201d she said in the statewide\u2062 ad taken \u2063out by Beshear\u2019s reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is\u2064 to you, \u200cDaniel Cameron,\u201d\u2064 Duvall continued. \u201cTo\u2062 tell a 12-year-old girl she must have the baby of her stepfather, who raped \u2063her, is unthinkable. I&#8217;m speaking out because women and\u2063 girls need to \u200dhave options. Daniel Cameron\u2062 would give us none.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After Roe\u2064 v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court last\u200c year, Kentucky passed an abortion ban that did not contain\u2063 exceptions for rape or incest. It does allow abortion to save the mother from death\u200b or debilitating \u200binjury. Cameron\u2064 supported the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>A previous Beshear ad\u2062 focusing on abortion \u200dfeatured a Louisville prosecutor saying Cameron thought rapists should have more rights \u2062than their victims.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u2064 the second of\u2063 the two spots, Cameron has come out and \u200bsaid he\u2062 would sign \u200brape and incest exceptions into law if sent a \u200cbill by Kentucky\u2019s Republican-controlled \u200cstate \u200blegislature. The 37-year-old Republican called Beshear\u2019s\u2063 latest ad \u201cdespicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He lectures us on partisanship and unity and then runs disgusting, false attacks,&#8221; Cameron said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said if the legislature were to bring me a bill\u2062 with exceptions, I would sign\u2063 it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a candidates forum at\u200c which both Beshear and Cameron \u2063appeared, they \u200bwere asked to\u2064 say something nice about\u2063 each other. &#8220;I would\u200b have \u200chad a lot of nice things to say about him until\u200b he\u2062 ran that ad against me today,&#8221; Cameron said.<\/p>\n<p>Most \u200drecent \u2064polls \u200dshow\u200b Beshear leading the governor\u2019s race by 8 to 10 points, despite President Joe Biden\u2019s\u2063 unpopularity in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, it is clear\u2064 where Daniel Cameron\u2063 is and where he&#8217;s been,&#8221; Beshear told the Lexington Herald-Leader. &#8220;But with seven weeks to go to an election, he finds himself down, and desperate people \u200cwill say anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The race could be the latest setback for anti-abortion forces \u200din what is supposed to be friendly,\u2063 relatively\u2062 conservative territory. This includes a recent defeat on a ballot initiative in \u200dOhio, which followed \u2063similar\u200d votes in Kansas and \u200belsewhere. Kentucky\u200d itself rejected a measure finding no right to abortion in the state constitution last year.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion tended to \u2062be an issue Democrats \u200cran from\u200d in Southern states. Both of Kentucky\u2019s senators, Mitch McConnell and\u2063 Rand Paul, \u200care Republicans who oppose abortion in \u2064most cases. Former President Donald Trump, who has endorsed Cameron, beat Biden in Kentucky in 2020 with 62% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who appointed three of the justices who \u200dreversed\u200b Roe and got them\u2064 confirmed under McConnell\u2019s leadership, has\u200c nevertheless\u2062 counseled \u2062Republicans \u200bto avoid \u200cthe controversies \u200bthat now ensnare his preferred candidate in the Kentucky governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike President Ronald Reagan before me, I support \u2062the three exceptions, for rape, incest, and the life of the mother,\u201d Trump said earlier this year, \u200bin what\u2063 has become a standard part of his 2024 stump \u2064speech. \u201cIn terms of running, you have to go\u200c with \u200dyour heart;\u2062 you have to go with what you\u2062 want. \u2062But to me, the three \u2063exceptions are very important. \u2063I think to a large portion of people on this issue are very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to tell you from a conservative and Republican standpoint, you \u200chave to learn how to talk about pro-life, you have to \u2062learn how to talk about that decision,\u201d Trump\u2064 said of Roe\u2019s reversal. \u201cBecause \u2063you don\u2019t know how to talk\u200d about\u2064 it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican operatives who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-derby-kentucky-governors-race-could-deliver-democrats-latest-abortion-win\/\" title=\"Kentucky governor's race may bring Democrats another abortion victory in Democracy Derby.\">advised anti-abortion campaigns downplayed<\/a> the significance of the issue to the\u2062 Kentucky gubernatorial contest, noting that Beshear is one of the most popular Democratic\u2063 governors \u2063in \u2064the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/democracy-derby-how-mcconnells-health-raises-stakes-of-kentucky-governors-race\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But \u2063one such operative told the Washington Examiner that it was \u201cdisheartening\u201d to see Republicans struggling on abortion in a \u2063race \u2064that pits two\u2064 candidates \u200cagainst each other.<\/p>\n<p>The operative argued that ballot initiatives are devoid of \u2064personality and more easily swung by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-working-class-gop-a-muddled-concept\/\" title=\"The Working-Class GOP: A Muddled Concept\">liberal media bias<\/a>, which combative and assertive candidates can counteract.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What implications does the outcome of Kentucky&#8217;s gubernatorial race have for the\u200c future of\u200c abortion rights in the state and the national conversation on reproductive rights<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ut as the fight for women&#8217;s reproductive rights intensifies, Democratic candidates like Andy Beshear are taking a bolder stance \u2062on abortion and \u2062using it as a key\u2064 campaign issue.<\/p>\n<p>For Beshear, who \u2064is\u200c seeking reelection as governor of\u2064 Kentucky, the battle to keep \u200bthe governorship \u2064in a traditionally\u200d red\u2064 state has become\u2063 even more crucial. If he succeeds, it could potentially catapult him into the conversation for the 2028 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>One\u200d of Beshear&#8217;s strategies in \u2062his campaign against Republican challenger Daniel Cameron \u200cis to focus on abortion. Hadley Duvall, a survivor of rape and incest, features in an\u200b ad attacking Cameron&#8217;s stance on abortion. Duvall \u2063shares\u2063 her personal story of being raped by her stepfather at the age of 12 and becoming pregnant in \u200bseventh grade. Although she eventually\u200c miscarried,\u200c she speaks out against abortion bans that have no exceptions for cases of rape and incest.<\/p>\n<p>Duvall&#8217;s powerful message resonates with many women and girls \u2063who need options and support in such\u2062 traumatic situations. The ad highlights the importance of allowing exceptions for rape and\u200d incest in abortion legislation, as currently, Kentucky&#8217;s abortion ban does not\u2062 contain \u200bthese exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the ad, Cameron has \u2062expressed his willingness to \u200dsign a bill that includes exceptions for rape and \u200bincest if it were to\u2062 be passed by Kentucky&#8217;s Republican-controlled state legislature. Despite this stance,\u2062 Beshear&#8217;s campaign has continued to attack Cameron on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Polls indicate \u200cthat\u2062 Beshear\u2062 is leading the race by a significant \u2064margin, despite the \u2063general unpopularity of President Joe Biden\u200d in Kentucky. This\u2062 indicates that Beshear&#8217;s \u200bfocus on abortion rights may not be\u2064 a detractor for voters in the\u2062 state.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u2062 abortion issue has\u200c been a contentious one in various \u2063conservative territories, including Kentucky itself. Anti-abortion \u200dforces have\u200d faced setbacks, such as the defeat of\u2062 a ballot initiative in \u2064Ohio and similar votes in Kansas and elsewhere. Moreover, Kentucky rejected\u2062 a\u2064 measure last year that sought to \u2064find\u2063 no right to abortion \u2063in the state\u2064 constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, Democrats have shied away from making abortion a central issue in campaigns in Southern states. But as Beshear&#8217;s \u200ccampaign demonstrates, times are\u200d changing, and candidates are increasingly \u200cwilling to take a stand on women&#8217;s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023\u200b election year is significant for many states, \u200cand Kentucky&#8217;s gubernatorial race is attracting attention due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-question-sparked-foreign-policy-shouting-match-at-gop-debate\/\" title=\"Ukraine query ignited foreign policy dispute at GOP debate.\">candidates&#8217; differing views<\/a>\u2064 on abortion. With Beshear&#8217;s focus on this issue, the election\u2064 could have wider implications for the future of abortion \u2062rights in the state and potentially\u200b influence\u200d the national conversation on reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>As\u200d the race continues to unfold, all \u2064eyes will be on\u2064 Kentucky, not only in anticipation of the 2024 elections but \u200calso to observe \u200bthe outcome\u200d of this\u200b crucial election year for the \u2064Bluegrass\u200d State. The result will have \u200cimplications not just for the state&#8217;s political landscape but also for the \u200congoing fight for reproductive rights \u2064in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a closer look at the crucial 2023 election year in Kentucky. Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat in a traditionally Republican state, faces the challenge of winning re-election. If successful, it could propel him into discussions about a potential presidential run in 2028. Stay tuned for the Washington Examiner&#8217;s series, Democracy Derby, for in-depth coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054857,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2054856","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}