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 | Reply

@#1 ... 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." . ...

Bingo!

As Mayor Mamdani showed during his successful campaign...

Don't talk at your constituents, speak with them.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-29 08:01 PM | Reply

Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY): "Democrats should start talking like people."

Uh-huh.

Asked if Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:

"That's becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party," Governor Beshear bleated without answering the question.

People talk like this?

Condemning genocide has become a "new litmus test?"

Since when?

Before or after the Bosnia genocide? The Rwanda genocide? The Holocaust? The pogroms in Czarist Russia? The Armenia genocide?

This kind of "talking" won't help the Democratic Party win back the 6,265,888 antiwar voters they lost on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024.

Ex-D/NCTC Joe Kent, who resigned over the illegal attack on the people of Iran-- a Republican-- sounded more like a regular person than Democrat Andy Beshear.

See YouTube video interview on The Young Turks show that Corky sent out the other day.

"Democrats should start talking like people" indeed.

Source: x.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-29 09:18 PM | Reply

Newsome? He has a s show in Cal. If the Dems were smart they would trot out Shapiro, but he's Jewish so they won't.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-30 12:20 PM | Reply

How Dems can win:

Don't run Kamala, Hillary, Bernie or Newsom - or anyone who upholds their ahem, "values"

Impossible

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-03-30 01:05 PM | Reply

" anyone who upholds their ahem, "values""

So...Trump upholds your values?!?

Sounds scummy.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-03-30 01:11 PM | Reply

If the Dems were smart they would trot out Shapiro, but he's Jewish so they won't.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw

Its a shame how racist the Lumpers have become, they worry more about a persons identity than their ideas. Shapiro would make an excellent choice.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-30 01:25 PM | Reply

Condemning genocide has become a "new litmus test?"

Claiming "genocide" has become the new IQ test.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-30 01:26 PM | Reply

If the Dems were smart they would trot out Shapiro, but he's Jewish so they won't.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-30 12:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

They tried it with Sanders - Hillary/Wassermann Schultz threatened to roast him over his religion. Seth Rich leaked it and it didn't end well for him.

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-03-30 01:29 PM | Reply

Its a shame how racist the Lumpers have become, they worry more about a persons identity than their ideas. Shapiro would make an excellent choice.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut

So how come all the confederate flags and nazi tattoos are at republican rallies?

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-30 01:34 PM | Reply

This guy has howard dean written all over him.
Dems need someone to march in and destroy the DNC like trump did to the RNC.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-30 01:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Is this a new TonyRoma thread?

Throw off the Epstein yoke and call it a genocide.

#12 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-03-30 01:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Democrats Should Start Talking Like People"

Funny how there's Liberal Outrage when Gavin Newsome says the same thing...

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 02:01 PM | Reply

Dems need someone to march in and destroy the DNC like trump did to the RNC.
#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Something you should be aware of:

Democrats invented SuperDelegates after Jesse Jackson polled much better than the Democrat establishment thought he would in 1984.

In other words, the Dems took steps to prevent their party from being taken over by Mob Rule.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-30 02:03 PM | Reply

Beshear: How Democrats Can Win
[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

Nah! Dems should champion trans women in female sports and defunding the police.

#15 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-30 02:16 PM | Reply

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?

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 02:25 PM | Reply

Democrats invented SuperDelegates after Jesse Jackson polled much better than the Democrat establishment thought he would in 1984.

In other words, the Dems took steps to prevent their party from being taken over by Mob Rule.

#14 | Posted by snoofy

You mean elites build a moat so that populism couldnt succeed.

Dems rejected populism and lost. Trump embraced it and won.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-30 02:49 PM | Reply

@Hi Snoofy:

Yup, the "Superdelegate" tactic.

That dinosaurism tactic probably comes from the US Senate and all their parliamentarian schemes to maintain the status quo at all costs, like cloture and filibustering.

The two biggest donosaurism protectors in Amerikkka: A reactionary SCOTUS and the US Senate.

We need more James Talaricos and Zohran Mamdanis and less brontosaurs and pterodactyls.

AIPAC Democrats will bleat those two can't win over the mainstream voter.

AIPAC Republicans will slime them as lunatics or Sharia law advocates.

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 02:50 PM | Reply

"Hamas!"

#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-30 02:51 PM | Reply

More proof Israel controls the US government?

Is it Antisemitic to notice?

If noticing this is Antisemitism what criticism of Israel isn't?

Any?

Askin' for my friend, A Friend.

#20 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-30 02:58 PM | Reply