Kentucky Republican Attorney-General Daniel Cameron won Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary and will now face Democratic Governor. Andy Beshear will face off against him in November.

The Associated Press announced that Cameron, who was endorsed by the former president Donald Trump, had won the Republican nomination as governor of Kentucky with 45.9% with 46% votes counted when the article was written. The attorney general beat out former Trump administration U.N. official and Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles with 21.7%. Kelly Craft, with 17.3% of the vote, received a late-minute endorsement by Florida Governor Rick Scott. Ron DeSantis and other GOP candidates are also running.

Tres Watson is a Kentucky Republican political consultant who told the Daily Caller News Foundation that “Cameron had a huge lead at the beginning of the campaign and the other candidates never were able to really cut into this lead.” The Cameron campaign was able effectively to portray Cameron as the frontrunner, and ride this initial lead to nomination.

“Cameron seems to be crushing. Outperforming public polls. “Good momentum is coming out of primary, and this race is definitely winnable for the Republican Party,” Scott Jennings told DCNF, a veteran Republican Kentucky adviser who has worked on numerous campaigns.

Mac Brown, Chairman of the Republican Party of Kentucky said in a DCNF statement that Cameron was the first black Kentuckian elected independently to a statewide position, the first Republican Attorney General since 1948, and the first to be chosen as the “gubernatorial candidate for a major party.” Cameron told DCNF he was a “check” against Beshear’s “liberal agenda”, and promised to fight for parental rights in education and bolster law enforcement if elected Governor.

“Andy Beshear does not represent Kentucky’s value.” Cameron told DCNF that he had been fighting Beshear’s agenda for so long as Attorney General, he decided to run against him. “They don’t know that he is a liberal who pretends to act like a moderate.” By the time November comes around, they’ll know.

Craft and Quarles were next, followed by several other GOP candidates. There were 12 Republicans in total running for the GOP nomination.

Craft told DCNF that he was running for governor of Kentucky to get rid of partisan bureaucrats in the Kentucky Department of Education. Craft told the DCNF that “we also need a conservative, strong governor who will not be a rubber-stamp for Joe Biden’s radical policies.”

Beshear narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican Governor in 2019. Matt Bevin succeeded Beshear’s father, Gov. Steve Beshear won by only 5,000 votes, 49.2% against 48.8%. This was the only Democratic victory on the ballot. Several Kentucky political operatives had previously told DCNF that Bevin’s low popularity among Republicans is the reason for the governor’s win.

“The Republican Party has been excited to unite around Daniel Cameron, the Republican nominee for governor. Brown stated that Daniel Cameron is a fierce fighter for the Republican Party, and has demonstrated a track record of standing against Andy Beshear or Joe Biden. Brown said: “Daniel Cameron is a governor that will take us in a different direction, solve these difficult problems facing our state and deliver for all the men, woman and children from Kentucky’s 120 county.”