Tag: Mitch McConnell

Responding to accusations on Tuesday by Kentucky Tea Partiers that a campaign spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) labeled tea partiers in general “fringe,” campaign manager Jesse Benton told Breitbart News, “In a statement yesterday, our spokeswoman called

During a speech in Lexington, KY, ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell and Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin challenged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his failure to stand up for conservatives in the Obamacare defunding debate. “Mitch McConnell must

Grassroots Tea Party leaders throughout Kentucky are unhappy with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after his campaign spokeswoman called supporters of his primary opponent “fringe” in a quote to the Washington Post, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. Many local Tea

According to a new poll conducted by Jan van Lohuizen from August 18 through August 20 of 600 likely Republican primary voters in Kentucky, Senator Mitch McConnell has a huge 47-point lead over his Republican primary opponent, Matt Bevin. McConnell garnered

A new poll of Republican voters in Tennessee shows Sen. Lamar Alexander trailing a generic “conservative” challenger by 5 points. The poll, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, shows a “credible conservative candidate” leading Alexander 49.5-44.9%. While a serious opponent hasn’t

On Tuesday, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell spoke publicly about an effort by conservatives to tie ObamaCare funding to overall government spending. Under a plan pushed by Sens. Cruz and Lee, Republicans would support a continuing resolution to fund government,

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has called on the Obama Administration not to open the Obamacare state health exchanges because the security of Americans’ personal data cannot be assured. A press release Monday indicated that McConnell sent a letter to

Wall Street is betting that the looming debt limit debate will, as in the past, be resolved. Politico’s Ben White and MJ Lee, however, argue this time could be different. “Really, seriously different,” write White and Lee: The House GOP

Last weekend, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, the main Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014, used kidney stones as a metaphor for the alleged obstructionism of her rival: “If doctors told McConnell he had

A conservative group released an ad on Wednesday comparing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to a chicken and challenging him to support the effort to defund Obamacare. The ad proclaims that McConnell will own Obamacare if he votes to

To defund or not to defund: that is the question. Hardline conservatives in the GOP are pushing for the party to stand tall on defunding Obamacare, which could shut down the government; the current funding bill is set to expire

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not yet say whether he backs efforts by conservatives to defund Obamacare in the next vote to extend the federal budget through a continuing resolution (CR). In an email exchange with Breitbart News, McConnell’s

On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted President Obama’s latest public relations campaign on the economy. Obama is scheduled to speak throughout the week about the state of the economy; on Wednesday, he will speak at Knox College

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is likely to face a challenge in the 2014 Republican primary from Matt Bevin, a local businessman who has recently been courting Kentucky Tea Party groups and who has been the owner of Bevin

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is running against Mitch McConnell for the U.S. Senate, is involved in two businesses that did not meet the annual July 1 reporting deadline. Reporting by the prescribed deadline is required by

On July 2, the campaign of 71-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a YouTube video attacking his 34-year-old Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. The unusual campaign ad has already gone viral, attracting more than 400,000 views

In the highly-publicized race to face up against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has thrown her hat into the ring – though if her campaign launch is any indicator, there is significantly

In a press release issued Friday, U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Republican Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), disturbed by the Obama administration’s courting of the heads of the six major professional sports organization to sell Obamacare to the

Republicans and Democrats are divided as to whether Barack Obama’s Tuesday speech supporting new regulations for carbon emissions will hurt Democrats running for office in 2014. GOP members believe that Obama’s speech may have the same effect as his support