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Standing together Friday inside the Republican Party of Kentucky's headquarters in Frankfort, the message from the GOP's six candidates for statewide office was clear."We are going to win as a united team," said Daniel Cameron, the victor of Tuesday's Republican gubernatorial primary. "I can't tell you how excited I am about this slate of candidates that are behind me. We are going to make sure we maintain these statewide offices in Republican hands, and we're going to reclaim the governor's office."It's a message these candidates, as well as other Republican leaders, will likely repeat over and over again between now and Nov. 7.In order for Cameron to beat Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear, he and the state GOP will need to get their registered voters not only to turn out in a big way but to vote straight-ticket Republican.We've seen what happened before, when some GOP voters opted for a Democrat instead. In 2019, former Gov. Matt Bevin lost to Beshear by a narrow margin of only 5,136 votes. There were six statewide constitutional offices on the ballot that year in all. But while all the other Republican candidates garnered between 750,000-850,000 votes, Bevin only pulled in 704,754 votes. There's been a lot of speculation about why Bevin fared so poorly in 2019, from his prickly personality to his battles with Kentucky's teachers over their pensions. Perhaps Beshear was simply the better candidate.Either way, Republicans want to see more uniform results this year. "Each of us has consensus support within our party, and that augers well for us in November because it suggests we're going to have a united base voting for us on a straight ticket," Michael Adams, who is running for reelection as secretary of state, said. "The last couple of these elections, the Republican base voting straight ticket was about 48 to 49 percent of the vote. That's where we start."

Standing together Friday inside the Republican Party of Kentucky's headquarters in Frankfort, the message from the GOP's six candidates for statewide office was clear.

"We are going to win as a united team," said Daniel Cameron, the victor of Tuesday's Republican gubernatorial primary. "I can't tell you how excited I am about this slate of candidates that are behind me. We are going to make sure we maintain these statewide offices in Republican hands, and we're going to reclaim the governor's office."

It's a message these candidates, as well as other Republican leaders, will likely repeat over and over again between now and Nov. 7.

In order for Cameron to beat Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear, he and the state GOP will need to get their registered voters not only to turn out in a big way but to vote straight-ticket Republican.

We've seen what happened before, when some GOP voters opted for a Democrat instead.

In 2019, former Gov. Matt Bevin lost to Beshear by a narrow margin of only 5,136 votes.

There were six statewide constitutional offices on the ballot that year in all. But while all the other Republican candidates garnered between 750,000-850,000 votes, Bevin only pulled in 704,754 votes.

There's been a lot of speculation about why Bevin fared so poorly in 2019, from his prickly personality to his battles with Kentucky's teachers over their pensions. Perhaps Beshear was simply the better candidate.

Either way, Republicans want to see more uniform results this year.

"Each of us has consensus support within our party, and that augers well for us in November because it suggests we're going to have a united base voting for us on a straight ticket," Michael Adams, who is running for reelection as secretary of state, said. "The last couple of these elections, the Republican base voting straight ticket was about 48 to 49 percent of the vote. That's where we start."

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