Kentucky’s Democratic governor Andy Beshear re-elected in win for abortion rights

Republican-leaning state rejects GOP challenger Daniel Cameron, after Beshear's campaign focused on issue

Andy Beshear, the Democratic incumbent governor, won a second term in the Republican-leaning state of Kentucky on Tuesday.

Beshear's hope that his support of abortion rights would persuade voters was realized even as skepticism of the national Democratic party grows in the state.