Beshear: How Democrats Can Win

Monday, March 30, 2026

"[T]he 2028 candidate should be one of our Democratic governors because people out there are going to be feeling betrayed. Donald Trump said he'd get them results and didn't. He made life harder. We, the governors, have receipts. We can show you where we built affordable housing. We can show you the wages for the jobs we've brought in. We can show you the real things we've done to help with public safety, not the stunts that this president does." -- Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear

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Andy Beshear Knows What It Takes for a Democrat to Win in a Red State The Kentucky governor weighs in on Democrats' future -- and how his party can compete in red America.

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... That's all put him in the spotlight as a potential 2028 contender. Just don't ask him if he's running. Beshear, who heads up the Democratic Governors Association, says his only focus for 2028 is "changing the map" and getting more Democratic governors elected across the country.

And while many Democrats may be pointing fingers at each other as part of the party's soul-searching journey, Beshear is uninterested in such infighting. It's the current administration that should be scrutinized, he says, particularly JD Vance, who he thinks "could be more damaging than Trump."

He has a bit of advice for his fellow Democrats to make inroads in 2026 and beyond: "Don't just talk about your policy points. Talk about your why. People really want to know why are you willing to march into the toxicity of politics right now? They want to know what drives you." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-29 07:58 PM

In the GOP, AIPAC hates the Libertarians against war and the anti-Israeli bloc (like former D.NCTC Joe Kent) that they slime as so-called "antisemites."

Antisemitism, like its twin brother Islamophobia, should be roundly condemned anywhere.

In the DNC, AIPAC hates James Talarico (D), Zohran Mamdani (D), and the Progressive Democrats of America for the same reasons: pdamerica.org

Joe Kent suggested in a recent interview that non-AIPAC Republican and Democratic voters form a coalition or political party.

A few weeks prior to Joe Kent's interview with Ceng Turk, I suggested that multi-billion dollar AIPAC should just form it's own political party in the US.

George Wallace did that when he ran for POTUS in 1968.

His narrow-focused "American Independence Party (AIP)," which ran on a platform of segregating the white and black races, won 9.9m votes on Tuesday 5 Nov 1968.

Segregating the races.

Sounds like apartheid and ethnic cleansing, doesn't it, AIPAC?