Kentucky Senate Democrat switches parties to GOP in major blow to Dem Gov Andy Beshear

Kentucky authorities Democratic Sen. Robin Webb, who represents Kentucky’s agrarian 18th Senate district, is switching her enactment affiliation to Republican aft she says the Democrat Party "left me." 

"First and foremost, I’m a mother, a rancher and a lawyer with heavy idiosyncratic and nonrecreational roots successful Kentucky’s ember country," Webb explained. "As the Democratic Party continues its lurch to the near and its hyperfocus connected policies that wounded workforce and economical improvement successful my region, I nary longer consciousness it represents my values."

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"It has go untenable and counterproductive to the champion interests of my constituents for maine to stay a Democrat."

Longtime Democrat Sen. Robin Webb switches affiliation to the Republican Party. (Andy Westburry)

Webb was primitively elected to the Kentucky State House aft defeating Republican Ramona Gee successful 1998.

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This comes arsenic a large stroke to Kentucky Democrats, who person historically held a stronghold successful agrarian regions of the authorities mostly owed to national workers and the ember industry. 

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told a section Louisville quality outlet that helium "would consider" a run arsenic the Democratic nominee for president successful 2028, and the recently elected Democratic politician and imaginable statesmanlike campaigner present faces an further situation to mobilize his state's enactment up of the 2026 midterms. 

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear attends the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting astatine New York Hilton Midtown connected Sept. 24, 2024 successful New York City. (John Nacion/Getty Images)

"Like countless different Kentuckians, [Webb] has recognized that the policies and objectives of today’s Democratic Party are simply not what they erstwhile were, and bash not align with the immense bulk of Kentuckians," Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Robert Benvenuti added.

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"I ever respected that [Webb] approached issues successful a precise thoughtful and commonsense manner, and that she ne'er failed to keenly absorption connected what was champion for her constituents," Benvenuti added. "It is my pleasance to invited Sen. Robin Webb to the Republican Party."

The Kentucky Capitol is seen connected Jan. 14, 2020 successful Frankfort, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Despite Beshear serving successful the governor's office, the lawyer general's office, caput of authorities and some chambers of the authorities legislature person a Republican majority. 

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"While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t permission the enactment — the enactment near me," Webb said.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Governor Andy Beshear's bureau but did not person a response.

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