Rand Paul: McConnell Victory Is Referendum on Hillary Clinton

Is it possible that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has already put 2014 behind him and starting thinking about 2016? Speaking live from Sen. Mitch McConnell’s victory party to Fox News, Paul declared that his Republican colleague’s win was not only a referendum on President Barack Obama but also on Hillary Clinton.

“Mrs. Grimes ran as a Clinton Democrat,” Paul said of McConnell’s opponent. “She tried to disassociate herself from Obama and attach herself to Hillary Clinton. But it turns out Hillary Clinton doesn’t have many coattails in Kentucky.”

Later in the interview, Paul repeated this line of thinking, saying the GOP wins are a “repudiation basically of the president’s policies but also Hillary Clinton.” While he said people were trying to say that Hillary and Bill Clinton are “somehow better for Democrats” than Obama is, in Kentucky, “they were soundly rejected.”

“It sounds like you want to talk about a potential opponent there a couple of times,” anchor Bret Baier quipped.

Watch video below, via Fox News:

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