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Alison Lundergan Grimes: Mitch McConnell Is Like A Twice-Heated Biscuit

Alison Lundergan Grimes: Mitch McConnell Is Like A Twice-Heated Biscuit
Paige Lavender
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Senior Editor, Breaking News, HuffPost

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, the Republican Policy Committee chairman, tells reporters that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and his political tactics are almost entirely responsible for making the Senate dysfunctional, following a procedural vote on legislation to renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., right, the Republican Policy Committee chairman, tells reporters that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and his political tactics are almost entirely responsible for making the Senate dysfunctional, following a procedural vote on legislation to renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alison Lundergan Grimes, who's hoping to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) in Kentucky, compared her rival to a twice-heated biscuit.

Grimes said the unflattering comparison was a saying taught to her by her grandmother.

"I think what people -– not just Kentucky, but the nation –- are seeing is that Mitch McConnell, kind of like heating a biscuit twice, never tastes good the second time, no matter how much jam or jelly you put on it," Grimes told the Washington Post.

McConnell was recently called a "beltway turtle" by U.S. Senate candidate Dwayne Stovall, who is running in a Republican primary against Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

Grimes has been hitting the campaign trail this week with former President Bill Clinton, who criticized McConnell for "not for doing anything and just obstructs things."

(h/t TPM)

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