From the Independent (United Kingdom): The one election you’re not watching - but should be
This race is a harbinger of America’s future
By SKYLAR BAKER-JORDAN
In 2019, Democrat Andy Beshear managed a razor-thin victory over incumbent Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. Though I was overjoyed to see the back of a scandal-ridden, bigoted administration in my home state, those Democrats did not understand Kentucky politics or history – both of which were on Beshear’s side.
Zoom forward four years, however, and Beshear’s reelection campaign looks very different. His GOP challenger is Daniel Cameron, the state’s current attorney general and the first Black man to hold that office. An acolyte of Donald Trump and MAGA true believer, Cameron has made opposition to Beshear’s pandemic-era policies and Trumpian culture wars central to his campaign – and thus made this race less uniquely Kentuckian and more a harbinger of America’s future.