Gov. Andy Beshear says he’ll ‘take a look’ at running for president

Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., would not rule out running for president in 2028, telling “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that he may “take a look” at launching a bid.“I would have never considered this a couple years ago, but I will not leave a broken country to my kids or to anyone else’s,” Beshear said Sunday.

Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., would not rule out running for president in 2028, telling “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that he may “take a look” at launching a bid.

“I would have never considered this a couple years ago, but I will not leave a broken country to my kids or to anyone else’s,” Beshear said Sunday. “And so if I’m somebody that at that point, that I believe that I can heal the country, then I’ll take a look at it.”

Beshear, who was first elected governor in 2019, won re-election in 2023, becoming a rare Democrat to govern a ruby-red state, where 64.5% of voters cast ballots for President Donald Trump in 2024.

Asked whether he was running for president, Beshear said, “What I’m doing right now is trying to be a reasonable voice out there that hopefully doesn’t just bring Democrats back together, but Democrats, Republicans and independents.”

“This country has gotten far too partisan, too much ‘us versus them.’ If we can focus on the core issues that lift up every single American, then we can actually move not right or left, but forward as a country,” Beshear added.