Salem Communications CEO Edward Atsinger and California insurance executive John Nelson are hosting a March fundraiser for Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Atsinger’s support for McConnell is notable because one of Salem’s properties, RedState.com, is home to some of the minority leader’s most ardent critics. RedState.com’s editor in chief, Erick Erickson, is backing businessman Matt Bevin over McConnell in Kentucky‘s May 20 GOP primary. However, two conservative talk radio hosts who are nationally syndicated by Salem, Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt, are headlining the March 19 luncheon event in Camarillo, Calif.

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