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The governor had made unsubstantiated claims that there were “irregularities” in the election, but never provided any evidence to back them up.

The unofficial results of last week’s election showed Beshear defeating Bevin by 5,189 votes, but Bevin has not conceded the race and has not backed up claims that thousands of absentee ballots were improperly counted.

The governor has made unsubstantiated claims that there were deeper problems with the election, laying the groundwork for an election contest. That would mean the race would be decided by the Republican-led legislature.

Beshear tapped his top deputy in the attorney general’s office, J. Michael Brown, to head up his transition team as they begin the process of taking over Kentucky’s executive branch.

The president spoke for more than an hour to a packed crowd at Rupp Arena in Lexington and was joined by both of Kentucky’s U.S. senators and all five of the state’s Republican congressmen.