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NRA endorses McConnell in Kentucky GOP primary

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Democratic Senate challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes left, speaks with former Presidet Bill Clinton as they are introduced at a fundraiser at the Galt House Hotel, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

EDITORIAL: Hollywood challenges Kentucky with big money for Grimes

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This Jan. 27, 2014 file photo shows Georgia Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., speaking, in Atlanta. Republicans in the 2014 midterm elections can’t seem to reach an official party line on that the old Washington practice of writing the federal budget to benefit the folks back home. Sure, top Republicans like Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell _ now Senate minority leader _ and former Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran of Mississippi begrudgingly banned so-called earmarks more than three years ago. They were reacting both to the tea party’s rise and a push from conservative House Republicans like Jack Kingston, now a House Appropriations subcommittee chairman. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Election-year GOP split over home-state projects

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT

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Glenn Beck, conservatives to rally with Bevin

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Bevin, conservatives rally in McConnell’s backyard

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 7, 2014 file photo shows Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Matt Bevin speaking in Fisherville, Ky. Bevin spoke at a rally in Kentucky meant to build support for legal cockfighting. The tea party-backed challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the event was billed as a states’ rights rally. Bevin told WHAS-AM in Louisville that he doesn’t condone cockfighting, but says he supports the rights of people to gather to talk about issues. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Ky. Senate hopeful Bevin spoke at cockfight rally

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

In this March 12, 2014 photo Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse, the president of Midland University, campaigns in Elmwood, Neb. Nebraska, home of nice-guy politics, is a new front in the bitter national struggle inside the Republican Party between established leaders determined to maintain control and right-wing insurgents trying to change the party’s direction. Tea party groups are endorsing Sasse and party powerbrokers including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies are quietly backing his opponent, Shane Osborn, and steering the majority leader’s donors his way. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska is new front in battle for control of GOP

By THOMAS BEAUMONT - Associated Press

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center watches play between Dayton and Stanford during the first half in a regional semifinal game at the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 27, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Cover 2: Even Sherman and Rice can’t help Stanford

By JIM LITKE - Associated Press

McConnell campaign ad mistakes Duke for Kentucky

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Screengrab of Duke players celebrating 2010 NCAA championship from Mitch McConnell campaign ad

Mitch McConnell campaign ad celebrates Duke, not Kentucky

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

Radio talk show host Mark Levin (Tea Party Patriots)

Mark Levin blasts Mitch McConnell: ‘He’s not a conservative’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Matt Bevin, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks to a gathering at the Spencer County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Fisherville, Ky. Bevin is running against Mitch McConnell R-Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Tea Party Patriots back Matt Bevin in race against Mitch McConnell

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SOWELL: Rethinking the GOP rule-or-ruin option

By Thomas Sowell

News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT

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Texas Gov. Perry throws support behind McConnell

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Texas Gov. Perry throws support behind McConnell

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

US Chamber endorses Mitch McConnell in Kentucky

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the stage holding a rifle before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

HUMPHRIES: Fight like a Democrat – An open letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell

By Rusty Humphries