McConnell: We Will ‘Crush’ Tea Party Challengers ‘Everywhere’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and right by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to reporters following a closed-door Republican policy m... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and right by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to reporters following a closed-door Republican policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Senator McConnell says he sees no hope for enactment of tax overhaul legislation this year, and blames the Democrats for trying to use the issue to raise revenue by $1 trillion. The Kentucky Republican said the object of overhauling the tax code should be making the nation more competitive, not raising more money for the government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) believes that incumbent Republicans won’t have a problem holding their seats in the 2014 elections.

“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell said about Tea Party challengers in a New York Times interview published Saturday. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”

McConnell faces a primary challenge from the right. The Senate Conservatives Fund, which backs Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin, believes the candidate has a chance of defeating McConnell the the primary.

“Mitch McConnell is clearly in trouble in this primary or he wouldn’t be attacking Matt Bevin and declaring war on conservatives,” Matt Hoskins, the head of the SCF, told the New York Times.

[H/t Huffington Post]

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