McConnell Campaign Manager Resigns in Wake of Scandal
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US Senate(WASHINGTON) — A campaign manager for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell resigned his position on Friday in the wake of a scandal from the 2012 caucuses.
Jesse Benton, Ron Paul’s grandson-in-law, had worked for the McConnell campaign in 2012 and was expected to run Rand Paul’s campaign in 2016. He released a statement Friday, saying that working for McConnell was “one of the great honors of [his] life.”
Still, Benton offered his resignation effective Saturday to avoid becoming a distraction to McConnell’s reelection campaign. Benton pointed to “inaccurate press accounts and unsubstantiated media rumors” about his role in “past campaigns” as the cause of his resignation.
“This decision breaks my heart, but I know it is the right thing for Mitch, for Kentucky and for the country,” Benton’s statement read.
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