nra in 2010. they stayed neutral as soured him on the nra a bit. he expected more help than he got. other issue with harry reid, he is the leader of the democrats in the senate. this is a priority for the party. on top of that, harry reid is in his 70s and up for re-election in 2016. there is an open question of will he try to stay for six more years or is he at the point he is like i m going finish out my term and not going to have worry as much for running for re-election of nevada. with mitch mcconnell, we are talking about somebody that s the leader of a party where in the senate where all of that sort of such a heavy influence from conservative activists and filtered in the senate and seen that in his own backyard. in kentucky where rand paul beat mcconnell s candidate in 2010. mitch mcconnell, vulnerable to the republican side in 2014. one has not emerged. we were talking early about can we find senator up for re-election who voted no on
from when ashley judd was still talking about possibly running and a lot of the energy and attention was on her, so and she was considered i don t know if she could beat mcconnell but she was considered the heavyweight, the democrat people really wanted to run. maybe they hadn t done as much research on her. the other question for the mcconnell campaign which is probably really driving them nuts which is not did the democrats surreptitiously take this but did somebody who they trust who is sitting on a phone call or sitting on a sitting in the room did they tape it and then give it away? my understanding of the law is it s legal that one person can consent in the conversation that they get to then have it. the question though is did somebody that the mcconnell campaign know and trust listen to this phone call and then give it out? we may never get that answer. it is appropriate to call for an fbi investigation. what becomes a bigger question and i don t know the taping la
there. how about the mcconnell camp? how are they reacting? mcconnell camp pretty confident so far. my understanding is they d prefer to have judd run. they think they can link judd to president obama. president obama lost in kentucky by 23 points and ashley judd has been a pretty big obama advocate. they think they can run ads that say judd equals obama and win that state. mcconnell people are worried particularly if grimes runs. his approval rating is only about 37% which means there s a lot of room, 60% of voters or so are open to someone different running there. so if grimes or judd ran a really good campaign, they could beat mcconnell. one thing to note is the week after the presidential election, mcconnell was holding fund-raisers already. he s been very wary of a challenger. he s trying to make sure to court the tea party part of the republican party. he s giving speeches at cpac, he s been very active. he s raised something like $7 million. perry, susan, great to see
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course, mitch mcconnell of kentucky, the guy who from day one vowed to make president obama, as we all know notoriously a one-term president. well, some national democrats think their best chance to beat mcconnell may be with ak ves ashley judd. judd a kentucky native has not decided whether to run or not but polls show she s competitive. for that we check the hardball scoreboard. according to poll by the republican firm harper, mitch mcconnell has a nine-point lead on ashley judd, 49%, 40%, not a big lead for a high profile senator against a political newcomer. we ll be right back. if loving you is wrong i don t wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it s not bad for you. it just tastes that way.