MSNBC host Chris Matthews claimed early Tuesday evening that if Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes loses her race against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, it’s because she failed to embrace President Obama and his policies.
“I think this is impossible,” Matthews said during an MSNBC midterm elections roundtable discussion. “I don’t know how you can appeal to Obama’s supporters by snubbing him. And when a candidate with a lot of publicity around her, Alison Lundergan Grimes, with a lot of political background — she’s no amateur, she grew up with this — would refuse to say she voted for the president of the United States, the leader of her party, I think tomorrow morning, when you put a signature on this election, it’s going to be that denial.”
“The denial twice at least, she’ll probably continue to do it again tonight,” he added. “What is this about the Democrats that they can’t stick together?”
McConnell, for his part, has made it his campaign strategy this election cycle to tie to Grimes’ name to the White House and the president — two things that poll very, very poorly in the Bluegrass State.
