Tea Party Brings The Knives Out For Mitch McConnell [View all]
SAHIL KAPUR – FEBRUARY 8, 2014, 8:00 AM EST
Conservatives are bringing out the torches and pitchforks for Mitch McConnell.
Long-simmering tension between the tea party and Senate minority leader has again risen to the surface as a swath of conservative activists redouble their efforts to help Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin oust McConnell in the Republican primary on May 20, before he even makes it to the general election.
The lobbying group FreedomWorks, the Jim DeMint-founded Senate Conservatives Fund, the political organization Madison Project and prominent tea party activist Erick Erickson are all trying to tear down McConnell, a 29-year incumbent who is vying to become Senate majority leader next January.
Their latest beef? It's not just that McConnell isn't a true conservative -- it's that his poor standing in the polls back home endangers Republican hopes of recapturing the Senate.
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