Monday night in a debate televised on Lexington, KY PBS affiliate, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes squared off against incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Senate Majority Leader. In that debate, once again, Grimes declined to respond to the
Akshai Bhatnagar, a field organizer for the Alison Grimes Senate campaign in Kentucky, wrote an article for the Johns Hopkins Politik Magazine in April of this year titled “Why Barack Obama’s New New Deal Depends on This Year’s Kentucky Senate
James O’Keefe has turned his talents towards the Senate midterm elections, secretly interviewing supporters and volunteers of the Alison Grimes campaign, the Democratic opponent to Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. In the latest undercover video, investigators secretly
A surprising new Bluegrass Poll released on Monday shows that Alison Lundergan Grimes now leads incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) by 2 points in the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, 46% to 44%. This is the first poll in four
According to The Hill, gay Republican candidate Carl DeMaio is getting big-time support from Speaker John Boehner. Despite opposition from some conservative groups, Boehener is visiting California this week to raise cash for DeMaio, who joins Massachusetts’s Richard Tisei as
At the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Conference on Wednesday, GOP establishment darling Ana Navarro said amnesty legislation may have a better chance of passing if Republicans take back the Senate and control both chambers of Congress. When asked if a Republican
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who said on Sunday that he can “absolutely” get Republicans to pass immigration legislation in the next Congress, believes his close relationship with potential Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will pay dividends if McConnell
Though Alison Lundergan Grimes continues to trail in recent polls, Democrats are doubling down on their ad spending to prop up her faltering challenge to incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Alison Lundergan Grimes’ campaigns touts it as the former president’s “first advertisement for a Senate campaign” in 2014. In fact, it was a video message from Bill that “officially kicked off her campaign last year” and he’s already made two
CNN’s “Wolf” anchor Wolf Blitzer asked why President Obama wasn’t getting credit for the economy during an interview with DNC Chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) on Wednesday. “The economy has clearly improved over these past six years … but
The replacement for Attorney General Eric Holder must oppose President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty and other executive overreaches, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told Breitbart News on Tuesday evening. In a statement provided to Breitbart News on Tuesday, McConnell
Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is trailing incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the highly competitive Kentucky U.S. Senate race, is claiming in a new television ad that her support for the Gang of Eight “immigration reform” legislation, which
In looking at the 2014 mid-terms, the New York Times‘ Nate Cohn is incapable of seeing beyond a Democrat-centric point of view. The result is his completely missing the point as regards what’s most likely happening on the ground in 2014: Four
Alison Lundergan Grimes’ campaign is blaming the host of a fundraiser for inviting controversial billionaire Warren Buffett to an event to raise money for her. Spokesperson Charly Thornton now claims that the Grimes campaign, which paid for an invitation to
As Senate leaders announced a proposal to lump together authorization and funding for military operations to combat Islamic State terrorists in Syria, members of both parties signaled deep disappointment. Exiting Senate lunches, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was deeply skeptical of
Senate challenger Allison Grimes (D-KY) is running right of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on guns and far right of President Barack Obama (D). In her most recent campaign ad–“Skeet Shooting”–Grimes tells McConnell he doesn’t hold a gun correctly, and she
Trailing in the polls, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is going to Hollywood to fund her lagging campaign to defeat incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Bluegrass State. Both the Hollywood Reporter and Politico are reporting that liberal Hollywood film
Republican Mitch McConnell continues to hold a four point lead over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, breaking 50% for the first time and, perhaps most importantly, drawing 16% of Democrats, while Grimes is only pulling about half as many Republicans away from
The AP is using Labor Day to kick off “a two-month sprint toward Election Day” by pointing out five key points in both the House and Senate mid-terms elections. As for the Senate, Kentucky is certainly one key and some
In a story initially and doggedly pursued by former Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan, Jesse Benton has resigned as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager, “citing potential distractions over renewed attention to a scandal from the Iowa 2012 caucuses.” At issue
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager is resigning as a result of a scandal involving a presidential campaign he worked for in 2012. Jesse Benton said Friday he’s stepping down from his top role in the
This article originally appeared in The Des Moines Register. Republicans in Congress got burned in opinion polls after the 2013 government shutdown. Some, however, including Iowa’s U.S. Rep. Steve King, are already getting out the matches for another round. Congress
CNN’s Dana Bash extracted a promise from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell not to shut down the government ever again. McConnell explained that Congress did have the responsibility to direct spending and warned that he would not just send a
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats are increasingly frustrated with how disengaged President Obama is, according an article in the New York Times. The story, by reporters Carl Hulse, Jeremy Peters, and Michael Shear, is the second
After relating a highly amusing incident in which a crestfallen Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was brusquely told by President Obama to deal with Republican leader Mitch McConnell on his own (just try to imagine the expression on the Crypt
