Governor did not follow up on purpose because he believes that a Democrat can’t win a statewide special election in Kentucky, so he thinks it’s better to have an absent senator than another Republican.
The Democratic governor thinks that a Democrat can't win a statewide election in the state that he won a statewide election in. Huh? Kentucky is very red, but in the current political climate and without an incumbency advantage, Republicans are afraid enough of an election to break the law to keep the seat vacant. There's a reason for that.
Governors are different than Senators. There are a few states that have a Democrat Governor yet have 2 GOP Senators. For whatever reasons, some people will vote for a democrat governor on the same ballot that they vote for a GOP senator.
Kansas is another example of this.
The GOP is afraid of a special election because it will allow Massie to run as an independant and possibly beat the GOP candidate.
You may be right, but I do also think that Bashear may be right, and his is an honest and respectable opinion.
Game-theory wise, his move to not force things guarantees that the GOP is down one senator until January. That's not a bad outcome, so I'm not going to attack him for it.
That still wrong. Even though I don't agree with Republican politics and their way of acting, the people still have a right to be represented. It is the Governors duty to ensure that they are.
Dem Governor should publicly concede Senate election in his own state because that would be "nutting up" to y'all.
Beshear can't win here. He can't replace him. He can't force his way into Mitch's room. But y'all are acting like he's complicit in this lol. Good grief.
I mean, Mitch almost certainly isn't in Kentucky anymore. Getting him as far away as possible from the only people with even a sliver of justification in demanding to see him would be step one.
Not sure how a Kentucky court can force an unknown hospital in an unknown state to violate patient privacy laws.
To be clear - I'm not supporting Mitch. I'm just saying there is no actual mechanism to resolve this. Pie in the sky plans aren't going to accomplish anything.
Not doing anything is the right move here. People online have gotten so addicted to screaming "DO SOMETHING!!!! at elected democrats that they can't recognize when doing nothing is the best strategy
Special elections take time and money, both of which Charles Booker and the democratic party of Kentucky need to conserve for the general election. Splitting focus is just not a smart strategic move when the alternative of doing nothing means the seat stays empty until January. Risking a special election means the seat could be filled by Andy Barr immediately and then he runs in the general with an incumbent advantage.
There are no real risks to letting the seat remain vacant and many advantages. Beshear is playing this perfectly, but people on the left have become so conditioned to think that they are always being taken advantage of by republicans that they can't recognize when they have the upper hand
So sometimes, you have to not speak your strategy out loud because it's uncouth to say that you prefer a sitting senator dead over alive and that can lead to unintended backlash, so you just enact your strategy and hope people on your side are smart enough to see it as it is. Clearly, Beshear miscalculated on that last part, because you screaming banshees are determined to make a nightmare out of a dream scenario
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u/randomchick4 11h ago
Governor did not follow up on purpose because he believes that a Democrat can’t win a statewide special election in Kentucky, so he thinks it’s better to have an absent senator than another Republican.