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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 percent 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 rival--though 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 percent 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.

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LOUISVILLE It was kind of like that old television commercial, only this time it seemed to be If Rand Paul says its so, it must be so.

What he said is that he and his U.S. Senate colleague Mitch McConnell are excited to have a Republican Party all pulled together for our nominee.

That nominee, of course, is McConnell, who crushed Matt Bevin in Tuesdays primary which set McConnell against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in this falls general election.

Problem is, Bevin hasnt yet endorsed McConnell. McConnell said he and Bevin havent spoken since Tuesday night when Bevin said the countrys solutions must come from the ranks of the Republican Party and that he could never support Grimes platform. But he stopped short of endorsing McConnell.

But the five-term incumbent, who hopes to see the GOP take control of the Senate and fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming Majority Leader, pointed out that outside tea party groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund, the Madison Project and Eric Ericson of RedState have endorsed him since Tuesday.

Paul said he will campaign for McConnell and vouched for McConnells tea party-like, conservative bona fides. Paul said, as someone who came out of the tea party movement, Im very concerned about the debt; Im very concerned about big government.

But I think the misnomer is that somehow Sen. McConnell isnt, Paul continued. Bevin and other tea party voices have accused McConnell of not being conservative enough and too willingly to cut deals with President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.

But Paul and McConnell made it abundantly clear they have no use for Obama, suggesting Obama is out to get Kentucky.

We see this is almost as a patriotic fervor, Paul said. We think Kentucky almost needs to be defended against the policies of President Obama and we think the only way that Kentucky can have a fighting chance is to have someone who will stand up to President Obama.

Both McConnell and Paul repeated the line that Obama is behind a war on coal, causing in Pauls words a veritable depression in eastern Kentucky. Both said regardless of how many times she declares her support for coal, Grimes will support the agenda of Obama and Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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