McConnell Campaign Manager: ‘I'M SORTA HOLDING MY NOSE FOR TWO YEARS’

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) campaign manager said he's begrudgingly working in his current capacity to help the presidential prospects of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), according to an explosive phone recording that surfaced Thursday.

In the recording, obtained by Economic Policy Journal, Jesse Benton — who ran Paul's successful 2010 campaign before joining McConnell's team — told conservative activist Dennis Fusaro that he has an ulterior motive in working the GOP leader's 2014 campaign.

"Between you an me, I'm sorta holding my nose for two years," Benton said in the recording, "'cause what we're doing here is gonna be a big benefit to Rand in '16."

The call was recorded by Fusaro on January 9.

McConnell endorsed Paul's GOP primary opponent, Trey Grayson, in 2010. Paul, however, made it clear that he's backing McConnell in his re-election effort next year.



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That sounds much more spicy to me. I mean this is good fodder but it's hardly anything new. Politicians say what you want to hear, not the truth.