Strong night For Democrats in off-year elections
JESSICA TAYLOR | POSTED ON NOVEMBER 6, 2019, 1:51 AM
Updated at 2:45 a.m. ET Wednesday
... If Beshear's margin holds, it's a blow to President Trump, who rallied in the state for Bevin on the eve of the election.
Beshear, the Kentucky attorney general, was able to drive up turnout in the commonwealth's urban and suburban centers and received stronger-than-expected numbers in some rural areas. His lead suggested voters are still willing to make a distinction between state and federal races, even in a hyper-partisan political environment ...
Bevin's second-place position also suggests there may be limits to Trump's typically uncanny ability to turn out his base for a candidate ...
However, Kentucky Republicans won all of the state's other constitutional offices on Tuesday, further evidence that this contest was more of a referendum on Bevin than a party shift ...
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2019/11/05/776572408/strong-night-for-democrats-in-off-year-elections/
