Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hit the Buckeye State on Thursday to raise money for GOP Senate nominee Rob Portman and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in North Canton, Ohio.

McConnell's event came just a day after President Obama made a high-profile speech just north of North Canton, in Cleveland and not long after his counterpart in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner, delivered an address on the economy.

But even as McConnell awaits a potential promotion to majority leader should his party pick up the necessary 10 seats this November, he's kept a lower profile than Boehner, who has been previewing a potential speakership.

McConnell appeared on CNN's “John King USA” on Thursday and noted that he met with Obama before the August congressional recess. “I thought he had the feeling he was going to be talk to me a lot more often in the future, and I think the reason he thinks that is because he thinks I'm going to be the leader of the larger group,” McConnell said.

McConnell also indicated in the interview that he has the votes within the Republican conference to be the leader, whether he's leading a minority or a majority. And that may be the reason he has been less visible than Boehner – who could receive a leadership challenge – even as he has held nearly the same amount of campaign events.

According to statistics provided from McConnell's staff, the minority leader from Kentucky has attended 239 campaign events for GOP candidates and committees this cycle and has traveled to 18 states. On Wednesday, he headlined an event for Florida Republican Senate nominee Marco Rubio.

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