McConnell: 'I don’t think Kentucky is turning blue'

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Tuesday’s results of the governor’s race “exasperating” and “disappointing” but dismissed the idea it serves as a warning to GOP candidates in 2020.

“In Kentucky, we lost the governor’s race by four-tenths of 1 percent but everyone else running statewide won by big margins,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who is up for reelection next year, told reporters as he walked into the Senate chamber Wednesday. “It’s exasperating to lose such a close election, and disappointing, but I don’t think Kentucky is turning blue as a result of that.”