Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) has landed a new deal with SiriusXM that will more than likely expand his national profile ahead of the 2028 election.
SiriusXM announced on Thursday it will be airing “The Andy Beshear Podcast” across its podcast network and its Progress channel 127, a deal that would reach 33 million subscribers.
SiriusXM also said it would be airing an “Andy Beshear Presents” live special series that aims to “feature candid conversations about leadership, bipartisanship, and the issues shaping both Kentucky and the nation,” according to the company’s press release.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will be Beshear’s first featured guest on his SiriusXM debut, which will air on Sept. 10.
Beshear launched his podcast in April as a number of high-profile Democrats, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, have made their entry into the podcast world.
“My podcast was intended to make sure that we could communicate with as many people who wanted to hear our message of relentless focus on those everyday challenges to American families, and also that it is possible to find common ground, because the things we care about the most in life typically aren’t political at all,” Beshear told The Hill in an interview in April.
Beshear’s deal with SiriusXM is notable because he’s been widely seen as a possible White House candidate in 2028. The deal would allow the Kentucky Democrat to significantly widen his reach and introduce himself nationally.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said that he’s mulling a run for president in 2028.
“My family’s been through a lot, but I do not want to leave a broken country to my kids or anyone else’s,” Beshear said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I’m going to make sure we’re putting the country first, because my kids deserve to grow up in a country where they don’t have to turn on the news every morning, even when they’re on vacation, and say, ‘What the heck happened last night?’”
Beshear said he wouldn’t have entertained a presidential run “if you had asked me this question a couple years ago.”
“What I think is most important for 2028 is a candidate that can heal this country, that can bring people back together,” he said. “When I sit down, I’m going to think about whether I’m that candidate or whether someone else is that candidate.”
Beshear has led ruby-red Kentucky since December 2019, winning reelection with more than 53 percent of the vote in 2023.
The Kentucky Democrat was considered a top contender to become Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate last year after former President Biden abruptly ended his 2024 reelection campaign.
Beshear cannot immediately seek another four years because state law limits governors to two consecutive terms.
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