Vice President Mike Pence hasn’t given up on winning over Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the commonwealth’s senior senator, has been leading the effort to craft the latest variant of repeal and replacement legislation that’s expected to be revealed Thursday.

“Under his leadership, and with the help of Kentucky’s other senator, we’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare,” Pence said at an event in Kentucky.

“Now let me say from my heart, the president and I really like Sen. Rand Paul. I’ve known him for a lot of years. He’s a man of principle and conviction. Sen. Rand Paul is a great conservative and a great legislator and he does Kentucky proud,” Pence said. “The president and I believe, when the time comes, Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul will do the right thing together and we will pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare and end the Obamacare nightmare once and for all.”

Pence was in Lexington, Ky., shortly after Paul told reporters on Capitol Hill that the draft of a bill to roll back the health care law was moving in the wrong direction from a version he already opposed.