Kentucky Governor Grapples With Tariffs, Says 2028 Call Can Wait

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear in the Old Governor’s Mansion in Frankfort.Photographer: Michael Swensen/Bloomberg

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October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC

The governor of one of America’s most trade-reliant states has a warning for President Donald Trump: Tariffs are hurting the industries he’s trying to revive.

Kentucky’s Andy Beshear, one of a dying breed of red-state Democrats, is in his second-term running a manufacturing powerhouse in the US heartland — which now finds itself at the center of Trump’s policy shifts.