{"id":6365,"date":"2025-02-20T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-beshear-democrats-need-to-talk-like-real-human-beings-to-win-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:04:15","slug":"andy-beshear-democrats-need-to-talk-like-real-human-beings-to-win-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-beshear-democrats-need-to-talk-like-real-human-beings-to-win-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Beshear: Democrats need to talk \u2018like real human beings\u2019 to win elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear wants his party to start talking \u201clike real human beings\u201d and get away from what he called \u201csanitized\u201d language and messaging.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to talk to people like real human beings,\u201d Beshear told Blue Light News\u2019s Elena Schneider at Blue Light News\u2019s Governors Summit on Thursday. \u201cWe’ve sanitized different language so significantly that, you know, people don’t feel like we’re talking to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beshear cited a few specific examples of language he thinks has been wrongfully embraced by Democrats, homing in on terms like \u201csubstance use disorder\u201d instead of the more colloquial \u201caddiction\u201d or \u201cjustice-involved populations\u201d to refer to incarcerated people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to communicate when you\u2019re not using some normal language,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Beshear has been one of the most successful red-state Democrats in the Trump era, having won two governor\u2019s races in a state President Donald Trump carried by 30 points in 2024 over then-Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people believe that you are actually improving their lives, and they see it and they feel it. Now they’ll change the way they vote,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Beshear also danced around a question about his political future once his second term is up, saying “we’ll see,” and highlighted his role as vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association. Beshear was floated as a possible running-mate for Harris last year, and his state is anticipated to have an open Senate race next year.<\/p>\n

“I love this country and I hate to see how divided it is,” he said. “If there is an ability or another opportunity to [fix America’s problems], it’s something I’d consider.”<\/p>\n

In his wide-ranging interview, Beshear touched on the floods currently affecting the Bluegrass State, which have killed 14 people<\/a>, as well as immigration and some federal services that impact Kentuckians, like Medicaid.<\/p>\n

In particular, he called out billionaire Trump ally and de-facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk for not understanding how the federal funds DOGE has frozen really work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see Elon Musk’s tech interns or tech bros running around D.C. They may understand AI, but they don’t understand funds like AML,\u201d Beshear said, referring to the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program, which is housed within the Interior Department.<\/p>\n

He said DOGE\u2019s effort to freeze funds for the program is specifically halting an effort that would bring clean drinking water to nearly 1,600 homes in two Kentucky counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese actions require that people actually know what they’re doing, that they learn the people that they might hurt,\u201d Beshear said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear wants his party to start talking \u201clike real human beings\u201d and get away from what he called \u201csanitized\u201d language and messaging. \u201cWe got to talk to people like real human beings,\u201d Beshear told Blue Light News\u2019s Elena Schneider at Blue Light News\u2019s Governors Summit on Thursday. \u201cWe’ve sanitized different language […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}