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Donald Trump May Have Just Won His First Election, If What Democrats Say Is True
Tea Party favorite Matt Bevin pulled off a stunning upset victory in the Kentucky governor’s race Tuesday night defeating the state’s sitting Democrat attorney general. The head of the Democratic Governors Association is calling their candidate’s loss a result of “Trump-mania” sweeping the country.
The most recent polling going into Election Day showed Conway narrowly defeating Bevin, but when the votes were counted, it was a landslide for the Republican candidate, 53 to 44 percent. The results are particularly surprising given that for 40 of the last 44 years the governor’s mansion has been occupied by a Democrat. The current governor Steve Beshear is a Democrat, who was elected twice.
“Attorney General Jack Conway ran a strong campaign focused on the issues that matter to Kentuckians: good schools, good-paying jobs and economic opportunity,” said Elisabeth Pearson, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association.
Pearson added: “Unfortunately, he ran into the unexpected headwinds of Trump-mania, losing to an outsider candidate in the year of the outsider. While Jack Conway came up just short tonight, his presence in this race strengthened the issues debate in Kentucky.”
The self-funding Bevin likened himself to Trump during the race in at least one respect. “I have no favors to pay back. There’s not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration…There’s not one person who I’ve promised anything to,” he said last week at a diner, according to The Washington Post’s James Hohmann . “Donald Trump is an interesting fellow…Part of what people appreciate about him is the very same thing. He doesn’t owe anybody anything.”
Bevin first came on Kentucky’s political scene in 2014 in an unsuccessful bid to unseat long-time Senator Mitch McConnnell in the Republican primary.
In September, the conservative candidate fully backed country clerk Kim Davis’ stand for religious liberty, including going to visit her in jail. Conway stood with Democrat Gov. Steve Beshear calling on Davis to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
Last year as attorney general, Conway refused to appeal a federal court ruling striking down the commonwealth’s constitutional amendment, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. “If I did so I would be defending discrimination. That I will not do,” he tearfully told reporters. In contrast to Kim Davis, Gov. Beshear did not call on Conway to do his job and defend the state’s constitution, but allowed him to follow his conscience regarding the matter.
Breitbart reports, “One major factor in Bevin’s victory was the recent failure of Kentucky’s Obamacare co-op, which took in 60 percent of the state’s customers in the program. Apparently, Democrats would rather blame Trump than Obamacare, to which their party is wedded.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/donald-trump-may-have-just-won-his-first-election-if-what-democrats-say-is-true/
