Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Tuesday’s results of the governor’s race “exasperating” and “disappointing” but dismissed the idea it serves as a warning to GOP candidates in 2020.
“In Kentucky, we lost the governor’s race by four-tenths of 1 percent but everyone else running statewide won by big margins,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who is up for reelection next year, told reporters as he walked into the Senate chamber Wednesday. “It’s exasperating to lose such a close election, and disappointing, but I don’t think Kentucky is turning blue as a result of that.”
Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin apparently lost narrowly to Democrat Andy Beshear, while the state elected Daniel Cameron its first GOP attorney general since 1943.
McConnell said he was “particularly excited” about Cameron’s win, which came with 58% of the vote. Cameron is the first African American elected to the position in Kentucky.
“So we are looking forward to doing well in Kentucky in 2020 and I don’t think anything that happened Tuesday will change that,” McConnell said.
