Rand Paul brushes aside GOP governor’s apparent defeat in Kentucky

Sen. Rand Paul downplayed the implications of his home state of Kentucky apparently electing a Democratic governor earlier this week, declining to attributeGov. Matt Bevin’s loss to his attempts to nationalize the race.The closely watched race between Bevin, the extremely unpopular Republican incumbent, and Andy Beshear, the state’s Democratic attorney general, was seen by many in the pundit class as the first major test of how the politics of impeachment would fare in a deep-red sta