Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: U.S President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, sent a 97 million dollar contract to help her husband, Mitch McConnell's re-election bid.

Q1: When was this claim made?
A1: 29/12/2019

Q2: Who is Mitch McConnell?
A2: Senator of Kentucky

Q3: Did Kentucky get a $97 million contract from the US government?
A3: June 8, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a $67 million federal grant to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) to fund much-needed improvements to Interstate 75 (I-75)/ Interstate 71 (I-71) in Boone County. Senator McConnell contacted the department to support his constituent’s application to the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) competitive federal grant program.

Q4: When did McConnell announce his re-election bid?
A4: 06/08/2018
McConnell formally announced Saturday his plans to seek a seventh term, speaking at a Republican breakfast in western Kentucky ahead of the Fancy Farm picnic, which is the bipartisan political event of the year in the commonwealth.

“I’m going to be running for re-election in 2020,” McConnell said. “I don’t like starting late.”

Q5: How much grant did the Department of transportation send to Kentucky
A5: Northern Kentucky will get $67.4 million from the federal government to address traffic problems on Interstate 75.

No, it’s not for the Brent Spence Bridge, that’ll require $2.5 billion, but a little further south in Boone County.

Kentucky was given the money Friday to rebuild two I-75/I-71 interchanges in Boone County as part of President Donald Trump's pledge to rebuild America's infrastructure.

Q6: When did Mitch McConnell announce his re-election plan
A6: McConnell formally announced Saturday his plans to seek a seventh term, speaking at a Republican breakfast in western Kentucky ahead of the Fancy Farm picnic, which is the bipartisan political event of the year in the commonwealth.

“I’m going to be running for re-election in 2020,” McConnell said. “I don’t like starting late.”

The McConnell announcement was not exactly a surprise.

Q7: How was the grant tied to his re-election
A7: Chao’s designation of Inman as a special intermediary for Kentucky — a privilege other states did not enjoy — gave a special advantage to projects favored by her husband, which could in turn benefit his political interests. In such situations, ethicists say, each member of a couple benefits personally from the success of the other.

“Where a Cabinet secretary is doing things that are going to help her husband get reelected, that starts to rise to the level of feeling more like corruption to the average American. … I do think there are people who will see that as sort of ‘swamp behavior,’” said John Hudak, a Brookings Institution scholar who has studied political influence in federal grant-making.

In fact, days after launching his 2020 reelection campaign McConnell asked Owensboro’s mayor to set up a luncheon with business and political leaders at which the senator claimed credit for delivering the grant.
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justification: While it seems a grant was given which could have helped Mitch McConnels re-election bid, The amount was $67m not $97m as stated in claim.

verdict: 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'
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