Governor Andy Beshear, D-Ky., He would not rule out running for president in 2028, telling the moderator of “Meet The Press” Kristen Welker so she can “take a look” when launching an offer.
“I would never have considered this a couple of years ago, but I will not leave a broken country to my children or anyone else’s,” Beshear said on Sunday. “And so, if I am someone who at that time, I think I can cure the country, then I will take a look.”
Beshear, who was elected governor for the first time in 2019, won re -election in 2023, becoming a weird democrat to govern a Ruby red state, where 64.5% of the voters voted President Donald Trump in 2024.
When asked if he was running for president, Beshear said: “What I am doing at this time is to try to be a reasonable voice that, hopefully, not only brings together the Democrats, but the Democrats, Republicans and independent.”
“This country has become too partisan, too ‘in front of them.’ If we can focus on the central problems that raise each American, then we can move not to the right or left, but to advance like a country,” Beshear added.
When asked for the second time if he was considering a career for the president, Beshear said: “At this time, what I am trying to do is talk for my people and the American people, especially with this attack against rural America and the” big and ugly law project. “Moments later, he added that he can” take a look “when launching a presidential campaign.
Beshear is one of several Democrats who have emerged as possible presidential contenders, several of whom are traveling to the first primary states. Beshear will travel to South Carolina next week, a state governor Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., Also visited last week.
Beshear has previously expressed an opening to run for president, and last week he told CNN that he did not want to leave “a broken country for my children or any other person”, a feeling that reiterated on Sunday.
“What I think is more important for 2028 is a candidate who can cure this country, who can unite people again,” he said in CNN’s interview. “Then, when I feel, I will think if I am that candidate or if someone else is that candidate.”
