Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel have locked heads over who will pay the tab for Republican Senate hopefuls J.D. Vance and Blake Masters' fall campaigns. Wednesday that McConnell and Thiel spoke by phone last week, with the Kentucky Republican - as well as the Senate Leadership Fund's head Steven Law - asking the PayPal co-founder to pony up more money. Thiel had bet early on the campaigns of 38-year-old Hillbilly Elegy author Vance in his quest for Ohio's open Senate seat, along with 36-year-old Masters, a former business associate of the billionaire who won the primary in to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
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