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(CNN) Rand Paul is defending his relationship with Mitch McConnell after helping his fellow Kentuckian defeat a tea party-backed challenger in a GOP Senate primary.
"I came out of the tea party movement. I'm very concerned about the debt. I'm very concerned about big government," Paul said on Friday. "But I think the misnomer is to think somehow Senator McConnell isn't. That's what his whole entire career has been predicated upon - fighting against big government."
The comments by Paul, the state's junior senator, came at a news conference with McConnell in Louisville that was focused on building party unity following a bruising campaign in which the minority leader's opponent, Matt Bevin, got 35% of the primary vote.
Some in the conservative grassroots movement immediately called for Republican voters to unite and support McConnell.
But Bevin has been noticeably quiet and hasn't said whether he'll back his rivalthough he flatly stated on election night that he won't back the Democratic nominee.
That's not stopping Alison Lundergan Grimes, however. She's actively going after Bevin supporters. In an open letter Friday to the 40% of Republican voters who didn't vote for McConnell, she argued that a vote for Grimes is a vote for change.
"Yes, we are in different parties, and we have divergent views on some issues. But if you believe that we need a fresh face to shake up Washington, I invite you to join our campaign," the letter stated.
Bevin hit back later Friday with his own letter, saying she doesn't understand "the principles that united my campaign's supporters" and disparaged her stance on a number of items on her agenda.
He agreed with her that Kentucky needs change, but not her kind of change. He made no direct mention of McConnell in the letter.
Come fall, Paul argued that those who identify with the tea party movement will rally behind McConnell to thump Grimes.
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Rand Paul: It's a 'misnomer' to say McConnell isn't conservative
LOUISVILLE U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul predicted Friday that any hurt feelings left over from McConnell's bitter primary against GOP challenger Matt Bevin will recede when conservative voters learn more about Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
"Really, the real question for Mrs. Grimes is how is she going to win in the state of Kentucky when she's a friend of President Obama and (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and she will vote for them?" Paul said. "Unless she can tell the voters she's willing to vote against Harry Reid, I don't know how we can consider her."
The senators spoke at a joint news conference that was the first for the two men since Tuesday's primary, when more than a third of Republican voters pulled the lever for Bevin.
Paul said he thinks "the people who identify with the Tea Party will come out when they realize what a disaster it would be for Kentucky to have Mrs. Grimes."
Last week's Bluegrass Poll found that 25 percent of Bevin supporters said they would support Grimes if McConnell won the primary, and Grimes sought to cement that support Friday with an open letter to Bevin's supporters.
In the letter, addressed to "Kentucky Republicans and Independents," Grimes wrote that McConnell "and his Washington lobbyist friends said a lot of negative untrue things about Matt Bevin and his family."
When asked for a list of the "untrue" things McConnell said about Bevin, Grimes spokeswoman Charly Norton said she was "going to let the letter speak for itself."
"If you believe that it is past time to give Mitch McConnell and his D.C. lobbyist cronies the boot, I welcome you to join our effort to elect an independent, commonsense problem-solver who will fight for Kentucky values," Grimes wrote in the letter.
When asked about Grimes' letter, McConnell and Paul both laughed as the senior senator said he hopes "she'll spend all of her time trying to get Republicans to vote for her."
Later Friday, Bevin issued an open letter to Grimes, questioning where she stands "on issues like Obamacare, amnesty, and abortion."
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