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by Joe Arnold

WHAS11.com

Posted on April 28, 2014 at 6:41 PM

Updated today at 8:04 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Ahead of a trip to Chicago to meet with wealthy, progressive campaign donors, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes on Monday emphasized grassroots fundraising in Kentucky.

"We are working hard in this race to make sure that Kentuckians have a voice," Grimes told WHAS11, "and we are so proud of the work that we have done in fundraising."

Grimes stressed that her campaign's average contribution is $25.

"We are going to continue to work very hard raising the most out of Kentucky than anyone has ever raised," Grimes continued, "and we've got people all across this nation joining us."

Grimes did not volunteer any information about her planned meeting with the Democracy Alliance, reported by Politico last week. According to the Politico report, the spring meeting of the "secretive club of wealthy liberals" includes plans by some of the countrys biggest Democratic donors "to pull their party and the country to the left."

Despite plans announced last week by the progressive Credo Super PAC to mobilize in Kentucky to defeat Grimes' likely opponent, five-term Republican incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell, that same day Grimes separated herself from Credo and other environmentalist Democrats by announcing her support for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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