2014 HD-24 election

2019 Secretary of state election

The election was dominated by issues surrounding accusations of outgoing Secretary of State Allison Grimes (D) improperly accessing voter registration data, resulting in the legislature stripping some of her power, as well as an attempted move by the State Board of Elections to place 165,000 voters on an "inactive" list. Adams focused his campaign on the issues surrounding Grimes, saying one of his priorities would be to "clean up the fallout" left, as well as instituting a photo ID requirement for voting and working with the Trump administration, while Henry focused heavily on increasing election funding and working with county officials to make voting more accessible. Notably, both candidates supported restoring the right to vote for felons, with Adams saying "Well, I support it" and Henry stating "[it] is something we need to move forward with in Kentucky,", although Adams did clarify he believed violent felons should have to "show rehabilitation" and that there should be an exception to restoration for "people convicted of election law felonies". In the end, Adams' arguments and Kentucky's staunchly conservative lean allowed Republicans to narrowly flip the Secretary of State's office by 4.52%. However, Henry put up, in my opinion, an incredibly strong performance, being the only non-gubernatorial Democratic nominee in Kentucky, as well as Mississippi and Louisiana, to receive over 45% of the vote and hold Republican margins to single digits. 

Following the election, Adams worked with Governor Beshear (D) to expand voting access during the COVID-19 pandemic and, in a rare bipartisan move, the duo were able to get some of those measures permanently codified into Kentucky law. However, despite efforts by Governor Beshear in 2019 to expand access to voting for convicted felons, Kentucky still has some of the strictest restoration laws in the nation. Adams' efforts to expand voting access, bucking the trend among Republican-dominated states, earned him two election-denier primary challengers in 2023, but Adams defeated both with ease before winning re-election by over 20 points. Meanwhile, Henry has not run for another office since, and, as the 2023 elections demonstrate, any Democrat without the last name "Beshear" will likely struggle to win statewide for the foreseeable future.

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