If Missouri Democrats are looking for help to get out of a decade-long electoral funk, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear may be able to provide a practical roadmap.

Beshear won the governorship in Kentucky in 2019 and 2023, even though that state would eventually vote for Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024 by landslides. He told a capacity crowd on Saturday at the Missouri Democratic Party Truman Dinner that winning on tough terrain requires sticking with convictions, using plain and understandable language and being laser-focused on economic issues.

“I am living, breathing proof that we as Democrats, when we run the right way, can win anywhere,” Beshear said at the Grand Hall in St. Louis . “And what's important about winning is, when Democrats win, we do something Republicans can't: We govern we

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