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First if all it's "Democratic" not "Democrat" which is a slur and I'm going to start reporting it as such if things don't get better.
"Democrat" is the unambiguous correct term there, actually. This is because the statement is that he is a governor, and he is a Democrat. That is, Democrat is something which he is in addition to being a governor.
Compare, for instance, the phrase "businessman president" for the current President in office. He's a businessman, and a president, hence the phrase. We wouldn't change the phrase to something like "businessmanesque president" or something like that simply to try to force "businessman" to be in a form more easily read as an adjective, and indeed if we did so the phrase would take on a different connotation.
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