A big part of that smile on Turtle Head’s face can be attributed to the fact that he really, really doesn’t like Matt Bevin. Like a lot of the republican establishment, he’d rather see a democrat win than an outsider republican.
No, he certainly doesn’t - but he sure spent a lot of time and resources to get him elected and then tried to get him re-elected. One phone call would have turned off that spigot of millions and millions of dollars pouring in to help Bevin. There is no way McConnell prefers having a Democrat retaking the Governorship going into the year he is running for re-election.