Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) on Tuesday heralded the results of a special election in Kentucky as evidence that the Democratic Party is “overperforming.” 

Gary Clemons’s landslide victory over Republican Calvin Leach in the Kentucky Senate’s 37th District “continues the trend of Democrats outperforming previous elections by wide margins all over the country,” Beshear said in a statement on X. 

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