Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) bid to appeal to Democratic voters in the Republican primary runoff appears to be in full swing, with the six-term incumbent leveling personal attacks against his primary challenger for the first time – from the left. At
JACKSON, Mississippi — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is gathering his K Street army to help stop the Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel and re-elect 42-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). “The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out an
Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes who will be facing off against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in November will also be locking horns with President Obama. Grimes said in a press release Monday that “President Obama’s new EPA rule
SOUTHAVEN, Mississippi–He’s endorsed his colleague Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) re-election campaign. But addressing a crowd of 100 Republicans here Tuesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) urged party unity, no matter who wins the bitter Senate primary. “I think we need to
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at his campaign headquarters to help unite the Tea Party with McConnell, who in the eyes of some represents the so-called establishment wing of the Republican Party. Follow
From Ana Marie Cox at The Guardian: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s primary victory on Tuesday night in Kentucky will undoubtedly tempt many a pundit to write the Tea Party’s eulogy. But the Tea Party will achieve in electoral death what it
Democrat Alison Grimes is running a tough campaign to take Republican Senator Mitch McConnell’s seat in Kentucky, but it seems she feels she needs to run away from Obama to do it. In a new ad, Grimes complains that there
During a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell trashed Sen. Harry Reid for his leadership in the Senate and hinted at what he would do should Republicans win the majority in the 2014 elections. McConnell
BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes on Wednesday twice refused to say whether she would have voted for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Asked two times whether she’d have voted for the 2010 overhaul,
Matt Bevin was the candidate, but Matt Hoskins, the Jim DeMint protege and the head of the Senate Conservatives Fund, was his most important supporter – and one McConnell allies took pains to highlight and isolate throughout the race. Hoskins’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has defeated millionaire businessman Matt Bevin in an expensive and bruising primary election in Kentucky. He’ll face Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the fall as he pursues his sixth
This article originally appeared on CNN.com Matt Bevin reaches into the breast pocket of his jacket and extracts a wrinkled, yellow piece of paper. “Fraud Alert,” it reads, in alarming, official-seeming font. “Sensitive Materials Enclosed. Please Open Immediately.” A Republican
The blow-back from Stanford University‘s May 6 decision to become the first major university endowment to divest of the stocks of coal-mining companies may hurt the general election prospects of Kentucky Democratic Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes, who has a one-point
On PBS’s “NewsHour” on Friday, New York Times columnist David Brooks noted a trend indicating change in the Tea Party. He pointed to the academic credentials of U.S. Senate hopefuls Ben Sasse and Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the shift
Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse may not see himself as an establishment slayer, but Nebraska’s primary voters may have given him a dominating 27-point victory on Tuesday to send a message to the Washington Republican establishment. At the beginning
The Tea Party, left for dead by the mainstream media only a week ago, roared back to life on Tuesday with two big Republican primary victories in Nebraska and West Virginia. All eyes now turn to Mississippi’s June 3 Republican
LINCOLN, Nebraska–Contrary to some reports, the tension between Nebraska GOP Senate nominee Ben Sasse and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell does not seem to be over. McConnell and Sasse feuded in the fall, with McConnell upset about Sasse’s involvement with the
After the Republican establishment gloated on Tuesday for surviving primary challenges against underfunded Tea Party challengers, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin ripped into the Republican leadership for preferring candidates they can coerce to support policies their conservative constituents oppose.
Granted, he lacks the warmth of Darth Vader or the charm of Jabba the Hutt. But Mitch McConnell, I have always thought, was a principled force for good in an evil, evil place. Which is why it is so shocking
As Democrat foot dragging stalls Congressional action on any Keystone pipeline legislation, the Obama administration suffers no such impediment in acting unilaterally to impose new regulations on the rail transport of crude oil. “The Transportation Department issued an emergency order
An ad against Nebraska Senate Republican candidate Ben Sasse claiming the grassroots favorite supports Obamacare has gotten the attention of ForAmerica Chairman Brent Bozell, who condemned it as a Washington establishment attack and called on Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to
A Super PAC launched by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spent upwards of $100,000 on an all-out campaign to sink Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse, after the grassroots favorite surged to the front of the race against
Citing an explosive undercover video taken at a March 29 cockfighting rally that aired Thursday in a Louisville television station’s investigative report, a spokesperson for Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Friday called his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a pathological liar.
On Friday and Saturday, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual meeting at the Indiana Convention Center in the center of downtown Indianapolis, IN. Agenda as follows: Friday, April 25 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum 1-4p ET / Noon-3p CT Confirmed
In a video that aired on Louisville NBC affiliate WAVE on Thursday, Matt Bevin, the self-proclaimed Tea Party challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke in front of a so-called cockfighting rally with more than 700 people in attendance.
