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According to a report from the Washington Times, should Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decide to step down due to health concerns, Kentucky's Democratic governor already has already made the constitutional case that he can pick a Democrat to fill the seat despite a law the state GOP majority passed in 2021. With questions being raised about how long the senior Republican will remain in Congress after an incident last week where he stood stock-still and appeared unable to speak before reporters -- only to be led away by some of his GOP colleagues -- attention in Kentucky has...

After his second public freeze up in about five weeks, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) fitness for office is under renewed scrutiny. But his quest to stay in leadership—or the quest of those around him to keep him in leadership, as it may be—could actually stem from a potential threat by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D). Kentucky, until recently, was a state that allowed the governor to fill a vacancy, regardless of party. This led McConnell, now 81, to urge the Republican-led state legislature to pass a new bill in 2021 that requires an appointment of the same party....

FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — As the race for Kentucky governor heats up ahead of the Nov. 7 election, Republican candidate Daniel Cameron has picked up a new endorsement. Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Berl Perdue Jr. announced Tuesday that the organization voted to endorse Cameron for governor. “Attorney General Cameron has been a friend to the FOP since the day he stepped foot into public office,” Perdue said. “We are excited to stand with Daniel and look forward to helping him during the remaining months of the campaign.” To reach an endorsement decision, more than 10,700...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – During his weekly Team Kentucky news conference, Gov. Andy Beshear again voiced his opposition to gender reassignment surgery for minors and took a swipe at his Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, for emphasizing the issue. “Daniel Cameron has taken this race to the gutter in a way I’ve never seen,” Beshear said. “Right now, I think if you ask him about climate change, I think he’ll say it’s caused by children in gender reassignment surgeries.” Cameron has accused Beshear of lying about whether he supports transgender procedures for children. As Kentucky Today reported, the University...

A library in Alabama has reversed its decision from earlier this week to cancel a book reading event. It will now indeed welcome actor Kirk Cameron and his publisher, Brave Books, on Saturday, August 5, for the nationwide "See You at the Library" event. The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library System in Huntsville, Alabama, had said in a release on Wednesday afternoon that it would no longer accommodate the book reading event due to concerns about logistics and security as popularity for the event grew this week. Almost immediately afterward, Cameron and Brave Books challenged that decision to cancel it.

A new statewide poll released this week shows Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear leading his Republican challenger Daniel Cameron. The poll – conducted by the Republican-leaning firm Public Opinion Strategies for the Prichard Committee, an education-focused Kentucky nonprofit – shows Beshear up 10 points on Cameron with just over three months to go until the general election. It projects Beshear capturing 52% of the vote compared to Cameron’s 42% with the incumbent having cross-party appeal. The poll also indicated Beshear’s approval rating is 63% across the board with 38% of Republican voters and 60% of Independent voters polled approving of...

State Sen. Robby Mills, who GOP gubernatorial nominee Attorney General Daniel Cameron tapped as his running mate Wednesday, is a longtime public official in Western Kentucky. He spent 16 years on the Henderson City Commission starting in 1998 before serving a term in the Kentucky House, then winning election to Senate District 4 in a one-point 2018 win over an incumbent Democrat. In 2022, he won re-election to a second term by 33 percentage points. At an event announcing Mills’ addition to the ticket, Cameron praised Mills as “rock-ribbed conservative with a history of beating legacy Democrats in a historically...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - 7-19-2023 Update: In a Tweet Wednesday morning, Kentucky Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Daniel Cameron announced his running mate. In the tweet, Cameron said Sen. Robby Mills from Henderson will run on his ticket as Lt. Governor. “Robby will be a strong partner in our quest to defeat Andy Beshear and bring common sense back to the governor’s office.” In a release from the current attorney general’s campaign, Cameron said the state senator is “a strong conservative with a history of beating legacy Democrats in a historically strong Democrat region” in Western Kentucky. Mills...

Climate doomsayer James Cameron has joined his wife Suzy Amis Cameron in listing their 102-acre California oceanfront property for sale. The Santa Barbara ranch, purchased by the couple back in 1999, can be yours for $33 million. Fox News reports the 68-year-old filmmaker and the 61-year-old former actress’s estate is located in the exclusive gated neighborhood of Hollister Ranch on Santa Barbara County’s Gaviota Coast

A leading mind in the development of artificial intelligence is warning that AI has developed a rudimentary capacity to reason and may seek to overthrow humanity. AI systems may develop the desire to seize control from humans as a way of accomplishing other preprogrammed goals, said Geoffrey Hinton, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. “I think we have to take the possibility seriously that if they get smarter than us, which seems quite likely, and they have goals of their own, which seems quite likely, they may well develop the goal of taking control,” Hinton said...

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican who is also running for governor, secured a pledge from JPMorgan Chase that may help protect conservatives from the threat of “debanking”—when banks cut off services over the religious or political stance of a customer, including nonprofits. Cameron slammed the “hypocrisy that we see from big businesses.” Speaking with “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Cameron notes that corporations “will promote the ideas and the agenda of the far Left, but they remain quiet or dismissive of protecting the First Amendment rights of religious organizations and—dare I say—the majority of Americans who firmly believe that...

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posed for a photo with a local chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2020 A recently resurfaced photo of Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posing with a local chapter of the anti-Christian LGBTQ activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has lead to some sharp language between his campaign and that of his Republican challenger, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron. "This is just another example of how out of touch Andy Beshear is with our values. He’s the governor of Kentucky, not California," Cameron told Fox News Digital. "The fact that he would host...

A new poll from Republican firm Cygnal shows Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican challenger Daniel Cameron in a dead heat in the race for governor, five months out from the General Election. The poll, released on Thursday, places both Beshear and Cameron with 47% of the vote, with just seven percent of voters still undecided. In a statement, Cygnal pollster Brent Buchanan said the results show that Republicans can capitalize on swing voters’ overwhelming disapproval of President Joe Biden, giving GOP candidates an advantage in Kentucky’s elections. Sean Southard, spokesperson for the Republican Party of Kentucky, also said...

The Donald Trump-backed Daniel Cameron offered questionable praise for the former president after winning Kentucky’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday. (Watch the video below.) After thanking Trump for his endorsement, Cameron said: “Let me just say the Trump culture of winning is alive and well in Kentucky.” Cameron’s glowing praise of Trump as a winner doesn’t hold up in the big picture.

(LEX 18) — Daniel Cameron announced on Twitter that former President Donald Trump will join him on Sunday for a "Tele-Rally" ahead of Election Day. In the post, Cameron said the "Tele-Rally" will be tomorrow [today, 5/14/2023] at 7 p.m. [ET] and can be heard by calling 502-237-8485. Cameron is running against several other individuals in the republican primary for governor.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Personal attacks and havoc stole the show Monday night, as five leading Republican candidates for Kentucky governor faced off for a live, televised 90-minute debate hosted by KET in Lexington. The candidates, Daniel Cameron, Kelly Craft, Ryan Quarles, Eric Deters and Alan Keck, had their feet held to the fire by moderator Renee Shaw — and each other — in one of the final debates before the May 16 primary. The two front-runners according to recent polling — Craft, the former ambassador to Canada and the United Nations, and Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general — in particular traded...

Republican state lawmakers voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a sweeping GOP bill that curbs transgender medical procedures and limits teaching certain sex-related topics in Kentucky schools. The House and Senate — both controlled by Republican supermajorities — easily set aside the governor’s March 24 veto. The Senate voted 29-8 in a mostly party line vote. The House followed with a vote of 76-23. The rebuke of the governor's veto by Republican supermajorities in both chambers came as rallies for and against the legislation occurred on the statehouse grounds. Protesters shouting chants that included "Trans rights...

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was excoriated by his Republican challengers over the weekend for choosing to veto a bill that would ban gender transition surgeries for minors, prohibit school discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity, and prevent teachers from being forced to use a student's preferred pronouns. The bill, SB 150, was passed by state lawmakers along party lines earlier this month before heading to Beshear's desk last week. "As a mother and grandmother, I think the fact that we’re even having this conversation is insanity," Republican candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft said in a statement....

The day after Kentucky lawmakers rapidly changed and passed a bill to include measures banning gender-affirming care for minors, the state’s top education official decried the “sweeping and harmful” legislation. Kentucky Education Commissioner Jason Glass said the latest version of Senate Bill 150 “contains provisions that will put our young people at risk, have the government interfere with decisions between doctors, patients and families and puts Kentucky at the front of a series of similar hateful, ignorant and shameful efforts around the country.” In the fall, the Kentucky Department of Education will host a “summit in support of LGBTQIA+ people...

James Cameron revealed on Monday that he would have to skip his film Avatar: The Way Of Water's Hollywood premiere after getting a positive Covid-19 test result. The 68-year-old filmmaker revealed to Deadline that he had tested positive sometime after returning home from Japan following an Avatar 2 screening in Seoul, South Korea. 'I am in LA, just back from Tokyo, and I managed to pick up Covid on the plane, so I’m isolated and can’t go to my own premiere tonight,' Cameron said while speaking with Deadline. The Titanic director joked about all the people he would no longer...