In their next-to-last debate before the Nov. 7 election, Gov. Andy Beshear defended his response to the Covid-19 pandemic against criticism from Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Appearing for an hour on KET, the candidates also debated each other’s positions on abortion, and Cameron made a false claim about the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Moderator Renee Shaw opened the “Kentucky Tonight” forum by asking Cameron how he would have handled the pandemic that hit the state in March 2020. He said he would have “done like other red-state governors” and tried to get businesses “open as quickly as possible.”
Asked if he would have shut down schools at any point, he did not say, but said “I wouldn’t have infringed on your constitutional rights.” That was a reference to court decisions, some successfully sought by Cameron, that said a few of Beshear’s state-of-emergency restrictions went too far.
Beshear was asked if he had any misgivings about the strength and duration of his restrictions, specifically the application on Easter Sunday of his ban on mass indoor gatherings.
He did not address that specific point, but said, “This is about leadership. I showed people during the pandemic I was willing to make the hard decisions, even if it cost me. I put politics out the window, and I made the best decisions I could to save as many lives as possible.”
Asked if he would do it all over again the same way, Beshear didn’t answer directly, but said “I believe we made the best...
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