Kentucky Democratic Senator Switches To GOP: ‘Party Left Me’

It is tough to be a Democratic governor in a state considered to be “Red,” and it just got tougher for Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.

The governor has been popular enough in his state that he is considered one of the top picks for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination for 2028, having defeated his Republican opponent, incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, in 2019 with a total of 709,890 votes, which was 49.20 percent of the vote.

In 2023, he defeated his GOP challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, by around 67,174 votes, which was approximately five percentage points.

However, President Donald Trump won the state in the 2016 presidential election with 1,202,971 votes, accounting for 62.52% of the total.

And his support has grown, garnering 1,326,646 Kentucky votes in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to former President Joe Biden, and 1,337,494 votes in the 2024 presidential election, accounting for 64.47 percent of the state’s votes.

That may be one of the reasons that State Sen. Robin Webb has switched her party from Democrat to Republican, Fox News reported.