Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) is endorsing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the 2014 Republican primary against businessman Matt Bevin, according to a report.
Huckabee will endorse McConnell in an email to his supporters on Thursday, according to The Weekly Standard.
“I’m proud to endorse Mitch today and stand next to him for the next fifteen months until he is re-elected in Kentucky and then elected the next Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate,” Huckabee will say in the email. A draft of the email was obtained by The Weekly Standard. “Mitch has a 100% Right to Life score, an ‘A’ from the NRA, a perfect 100% from the American Conservative Union, and he’s the one man primarily responsible for uniting Senate Republicans against Obamacare.”
Meanwhile Bevin’s campaign announced Thursday that it had won the endorsement of Louisville Tea Party Founder and President Wendy Caswell. The Bevin campaign’s announcement of Caswell’s endorsement describes the Louisville Tea Party as “one of Kentucky’s largest Tea Party groups.”
