Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron Announces Gubernatorial Run
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Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron said he will run for governor in his state in a video announcement released on Wednesday.
Cameron, a Republican and the first black attorney general elected in Kentucky, filed paperwork to enter the 2023 gubernatorial race earlier on Wednesday morning.
“All of us conservatives feel a weight of responsibility right now,” Cameron says in the video announcement. “That’s why I’ve decided to run for governor.”
Cameron says he believes Kentucky should have a governor who defends “innocent life” and who “understands that only faith can keep us strong.”
“Andy Beshear is not uniting Kentucky. This governor does not reflect our values,” Cameron adds. “That’s never going to change, so we have to change our governor.”
I’m proud to announce that I am running for Governor of Kentucky to deliver Bold Conservative Leadership to the Commonwealth. Join us!https://t.co/67s5STj0Jy pic.twitter.com/pdMRIWfbsQ
— Daniel Cameron (@DanielCameronAG) May 11, 2022
Cameron is a former general counsel for Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), and received praise for a speech during the 2020 Republican National Convention. Cameron led a suit against Beshear to limit the governor’s emergency powers invoked during the Covid pandemic, and the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in Cameron’s favor last summer.
The attorney general also received national attention during the 2020 investigation into the shooting of Breonna Taylor.
If Cameron wins the Republican primary he will face off against Beshear, a Democrat who is also a former Kentucky attorney general and son of former governor Steve Beshear. Andy Beshear was elected in 2019, narrowly defeating then-Republican incumbent Matt Bevin.
Beshear in April vetoed a Kentucky bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with critics saying the bill would outlaw abortion entirely in practice, and vetoed another piece of legislation that would require student athletes to play on sports teams according to their biological sex. The Kentucky legislature subsequently overrode both of Beshear’s vetoes.
