FILE - Moderator Renee Shaw, center, talks with Kentucky gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, left, and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, right, during a debate at KET Network Center in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Beshear and Cameron have reached the end of their hard-hitting campaign for governor in Kentucky. After months of sparring over abortion and the economy, they’ll await the verdict from voters Tuesday, Nov. 7.
pinching household budgets while linking Beshear to Biden — who lost Kentucky in a rout while winning nationally to unseat Republican Donald Trump in the 2020 election. In a message tailored to the state’s legions of conservative voters, Cameron criticized Beshear’s veto of a sweepingthat banned gender-affirming care for young transgender people. The veto was overridden by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature. Beshear said the bill “rips away” the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children, adding that “all children are children of God.”
Cameron is a protege of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, having served as the senator’s legal counsel before launching his political career. In 2019, Cameron became the first Black candidate to be elected as Kentucky’s attorney general. Now he’s trying to replicate that groundbreaking achievement by seeking to become the first Black Kentucky governor.