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  New Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear takes office with call to promote “common good”

  Beshear inaugurated in Frankfort after ousting Republican Matt Bevin in November vote ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com FRANKFORT, Kentucky (CFP) — Kentucky’s new Democratic governor, Andy…

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  Atlanta finance executive Kelly Loeffler picked for Georgia U.S. Senate seat

  Governor Brian Kemp picks Loeffler for vacancy over objections of Trump partisans ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com ATLANTA (CFP) — Kelly Loeffler, a multi-millionaire Atlanta finance…

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  Insight: What do 2019’s election results in the South tell us about 2020?

  Wins in Kentucky and Louisiana aren’t nirvana for Democrats, but they do show limits to GOP strategy of socialist pigeonholing ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor…

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  Louisiana Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards defeats Republican Eddie Rispone

  Edwards’s victory is a blow to Republicans and President Donald Trump after earlier GOP loss in Kentucky ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor NEW ORLEANS (CFP)…

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  Louisiana voters will decide governor’s race in Saturday runoff

  Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards is facing Republican Eddie Rispone in quest for second term ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com BATON ROUGE (CFP) — Voters in…

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  Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin concedes defeat after recanvass doesn’t change election results

  Democrat Andy Beshear’s 5,200-vote lead stands up after review ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor FRANKFORT, Kentucky (CFP) — Republican Governor Matt Bevin has conceded defeat…