Tagged: Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell may not be delivering tonight’s Republican response to the State of the Union Address, but he is issuing a few challenges to President Obama ahead of the speech.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A feisty Mitch McConnell promised to take the fight to any opponent as the Senate's top Republican got a head start on a 2014 re-election campaign that could squeeze him between challenges from his own party as well as from Democrats.

Kentucky's longest-serving senator opened a campaign office in his hometown of Louisville on Saturday, about a year earlier than in his previous campaigns. It was a clear message to critics as he vowed to wage the "biggest and best campaign this state has ever seen."

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kentucky’s most influential Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is throwing his weight behind the movement to legalize hemp production in the state.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell received a standing ovation at a Commerce Lexington Luncheon Friday, but it was a different scene outside the Convention Center.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear ruled himself out Wednesday as a potential challenger to Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the political powerhouse who comes up for re-election in 2014.

Beshear, who challenged McConnell unsuccessfully in 1996, said he expects a credible Democratic candidate to step forward.

"I have no interest in running for that or any other office," he told reporters in a Capitol press conference.

FRANKFORT, Ky.  -- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reached into the upper echelons of the tea party movement for a campaign manager to head his bid for re-election to a sixth term.