Huffington Post editorial director Howard Fineman said Tuesday that the "Obama people don't want" actress Ashley Judd to run for senate in Kentucky:
STEVE KORNACKI: I think the story at this moment is that national Democrats have decided she is unelectable in that state. They do not want her to run. Do you think they're going to get their way and keep her out of that race?
HOWARD FINEMAN: Well, they gotta get somebody else. The key--I was in Kentucky last week, at the big Democratic dinner of the establishment, they don't have a candidate to stop her. If they want to stop her from getting in, or if they want to stop her from winning the Democratic nomination in the Kentucky senate primary a year from this May, they need to coalesce around an alternative. They don't have one right now. Most likely it's the Secretary of State Alison Grimes; if they can get her in, fine. The Judd supporters think that if she gets in, she clears the field--we'll see. I know the Obama people don't want Judd. The Kentucky establishment don't want Judd. But nobody else wants to run. All the establishment Democrats want to wait for the governor's race in 2015.
National Journal reported Tuesday Democrats in Kentucky are concerned a Judd candidacy could hurt the party brand in the state.