Before
I get to doing the general elections to keep track of in 2020, I might as well
do a recap of the general governor elections that happened in 2019. I won’t
keep track of any of the other races that happened that year, even if they were
important.
In
Kentucky, Republican’t incumbent Matt Bevin lost reelection to Democrat Andy
Beshear. Matt was the most unpopular governor in the country at the time. I
don’t know who replaced him as that in the present. Matt caused controversy
with all the pardons he issued on the way out that people in his state are
going to investigate. Matt and Trump had close connections so it was kind of
refreshing to see someone embrace Trump in a red state and lose.
In
Mississippi, the incumbent governor, Republican Phil Bryant, was not able to
run again. The Republican candidate who won the primary was Tate Reeves. I was
concerned through a news story that there could have been voter fraud in the
Republican primary, but this idea is unproven at the time and was probably more
of a voter machine glitch. Jim Hood was the Democrat who won the primary. Tate
won the election in the end.
In
Louisiana, the incumbent governor was Democrat John Bel Edwards. The Republican
who ended up challenging him turned out to be Eddie Rispone. Louisiana has a
crazy way of how they do primaries. After the election was done, John Bel
Edwards won reelection.
That’s
about it for this post. Due to lack of views when I talked about the general
gubernatorial election last year, I might be possibly discontinuing posts like
these in the future. There’s not much else to say so I will end this post here.
