Bill Clinton rallies Kentucky Senate race voters
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Former President Bill Clinton is raising money and rallying Kentucky voters for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes.
Clinton is scheduled to headline a fundraiser in Lexington on Wednesday before traveling to eastern Kentuckys coal country to speak to voters in Hazard. Clinton is a close friend of Grimes father, Jerry Lundergan, a former state lawmaker and former state party chairman.
It is the second time this cycle Clinton will have campaigned for Grimes. Shes challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in one of the closest Senate races in the country.
McConnell has focused his campaign on tying Grimes to President Barack Obama, who remains unpopular in Kentucky. But Grimes has tried to distance herself from the president by condemning his energy policies.
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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/08/06/bill_clinton_rallies_kentucky_senate_race_voters/
onehandle
(51,122 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)These campaign people who tell these candidates what to say and do are doing there candidates no favors.If you have a democrat running in a election who try and distance themselves from Obama all it will do is upset African American voters
Zambero
(8,965 posts)Her response: President Obama is not on the ballot this year, and Mitch McConnell is, having to defend a 30-year record of supporting crony capitalism at every turn while being tone deaf on issues that matter to a majority of Kentuckians. And Kynect has been a smashing success while McConnell has gone out of his way to try and kill it.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...would come up here to Maine and give some help to Shenna Bellows, our great Democratic Senate nominee. GO SHENNA BELLOWS!!!
PEACE!