(CNN) In the wake of Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's almost-certain loss on Tuesday, the conventional wisdom soon began to congeal: This is bad news for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's chances of winning a seventh(!) There's no doubt he will have a real race but I'm not sure Bevin, who McConnell beat in a Senate primary in 2014, going down to defeat tells us all that much about McConnell. He is also a McConnell protege, having served as the senator's general counsel from 2015-2017. "Mitch McConnell did what no @KyDems was able to do, and that is get a non-white Kentuckian elected to statewide office," tweeted Louisville Courier Journal political reporter Phillip M. Bailey.

Source: CNN November 06, 2019 14:27 UTC