Beshear's Nashville speech revealed his political approach

Flashback: Beshear's Nashville speech was hosted by the Tennessee Freedom Circle, an advocacy group that formed in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision abolishing Roe v. Wade.

What he said: Beshear, a Vanderbilt graduate, received a standing ovation from the Nashville crowd before he took the podium to deliver his speech.

• Beshear told the crowd that he believes he won re-election last year because he focused on meeting people's "basic needs" and by governing "with empathy" and "compassion."
• "I believe when we lead from empathy and we start talking about these issues from a place of empathy, not from a political position, but from a place of human decency, when we talk about why we believe it — it could be your faith, your values, it could be any of that — then we connect with people."