Cenk Uygur
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Mitch McConnell's Campaign Manager Said WHAT?
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August 12, 2013
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3:36Now Playing"As part of his ongoing effort to shore up his right flank, Mitch McConnell tapped Jesse Benton, Rand Paul's 2010 campaign manager, to lead his reelection effort. The fact that Benton had worked for Rand Paul — who McConnell had opposed in the Republican primary! — should've been a tip-off that this was more a marriage of political convenience than a case of true love. But now, thanks to a surreptitiously recorded phone conversation between Benton and an ex-friend, we've got Benton dissing McConnell on the record:
'I am, well between you and me, I'm sort of holding my nose for two years, 'cause what we're doing here is going to be a big benefit to Rand in 16 so. That's my long vision.'
This has sent shudders of glee through the political class because it's August and politics right now is boring. But there's nothing here."
Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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