2028 preview -- Andy Beshear takes a shot at JD Vance, during swing through SC today: "I won areas in eastern Kentucky, Appalachia, that normally vote for Republicans by large margins. That includes Breathitt County in Appalachia, which is the county JD Vance pretends he’s from."
love it.
Beshear asked , "Are you here ... because you’re running for president in 2028?" "I’m here in South Carolina this week for three reasons: the AFL invited me, the Georgetown Dems invited me, and my son has a baseball tournament here at the end of the weekend, in South Carolina."
Beshear: "I’m looking forward to it, it’s in Charleston, he’ll play three to five games - my son is sixteen, and one of my joys in life is watching him play baseball; my daughter rides horses, that’s the most expensive sport ever known to man."
Beshear: "I’m also traveling more, I’m traveling more because I’m trying to be a common sense, common ground, get things done type of voice that can pull not just Democrats back together, but hopefully pull Republicans and Independents together too."
Throughout remarks at an AFL-CIO gathering in Greenville, Beshear touted his record in KY as a model for the country – promoting union membership, health care expansion, and taking shots at the landmark GOP policy bill passed last month, referring to it as the “big, ugly bill."
Beshear: “We have to make sure Americans know that right now, Trump Republicans are decimating Medicaid and food assistance, and that this big, ugly bill is the most anti-worker, anti-job, anti-rural, and anti-health care piece of legislation that we have seen in our lifetimes."
The red-state Dem’s remarks were also threaded with advice for his party, still grappling for a unified message following losses in 2024. He pushed back on what he called “advocacy speak,” saying that “the language that we use is a big part of” what the party needs to improve.
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“Take this big ugly bill. If we want to push back against it, if we want to try to undo it, we can’t say it’s going to lessen food assistance, or that it’s going to make more people food insecure – what it’s going to make people do is go hungry,” Beshear said.
Beshear: "At night when they’re going to bed. In the morning when they’re waking up. So making sure that we are talking to people in the same language that they do every day, Democrats can win again.”
Plain language — and standing up for rule of law and human rights. Hillary got us started with “women’s rights are human rights.” Let’s continue that with immigrants, migrants, LGBTQ+, prisoners, indigenous, poor, disabled, elderly, children, sick. Hell, we’ll even throw in men and Republicans.
During Q&A after his remarks, Beshear was repeatedly pressed about the 2028 presidential race. While parrying questions about his future, he acknowledged plans to travel “more” and be a “voice” for his party.
Beshear: "I’m traveling more because I’m trying to be a common sense, common ground, get things done type of voice that can pull not just Democrats back together, but hopefully pull Republicans and Independents together too"
I am ready to be hurt again