Kentucky 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.
He predicted Democrats in traditionally GOP-controlled states will have better chances in the upcoming election cycle in the wake of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” that was signed into law Friday.
“I think, especially in these rural states where Republican governors have not spoken up whatsoever to stop this devastating bill, we’re going to have strong candidates,” Beshear said. “We’re going to win a lot of elections.”
“All these Republican governors that aren’t saying a thing, where their rural hospitals are going to close, where they’re going to see massive layoffs and people lose their coverage. That’s pretty sad,” he added.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Governor Gavin Newsom have also been rumored as potential contenders for the Democratic nomination.
No thank you
You and the rest of the Democratic community don’t get it Andy, there is a distinct dichotomy in the United States and most people are very tired of the “nanny state” that you and others in the Democrat party endorse and want to prevail. We like freedom, and our freedoms have been severely impacted by the apparent desire of the Democrat party to enslave the people of this nation to an even greater extent than they already have accomplished. It is sad that you, and others in your party believe that the government is the solution to all of our problems when in fact it is the government that has created most of them and had the greatest impact of the enslavement of the people to the government whims. The government has so far past the intent of the founders that it does not even resemble what they intended for a government to be responsible for and to have responsibility for in the operation of it. It is a sad state of affairs that the people have chosen to marry the government rather than each other, and the result is the life long dependence upon the government and the continued existance in poverty as a result. Too bad, it was a noble idea in the beginning, but Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said this was to be a Constitutional Republic, if you can keep it.