O'Donnell Leads Castle in Delaware GOP Senate Primary in Recent Poll

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Rove was still trashing her this morning on FNC.    However, it looks like the RNSC has gottena clue.

If you Tweet it, they will succumb.

That might be the lesson today as the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has just announced that it will support Republican “tea party” candidate Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.

NRSC Chairman John Cornyn, Republican Senator from Texas, released a statement announcing the committee’s support:

Let there be no mistake: The National Republican Senatorial Committee – and I personally as the committee’s chairman – strongly stand by all of our Republican nominees, including Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.
I reached out to Christine this morning, and as I have conveyed to all of our nominees, I offered her my personal congratulations and let her know that she has our support. This support includes a check for $42,000 – the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees – which the NRSC will send to her campaign today. [Read Cornyn's full statement at Politico.]

That’s a reversal from yesterday, when it was believed the NRSC would not support O’Donnell. However, NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh did leave the door open for a change of heart. “We reserve the right, as the Democrats do, to invest money in any race at any time,” he said.

  TheBlaze

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Press Release from the Tea Party Express:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2010


The Tea Party Express issued the following statement in response to preliminary reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee would not support their own nominee for U.S. Senate in Delaware:

"The National Republican Senatorial Committee has reportedly said they will not support their own nominee for U.S. Senate in Delaware. This is a rash statement that hopefully they will reconsider once good judgment sets in.

"The NRSC tried to meddle in the vote recount for liberal Republican Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Now they say they aren't committed to supporting their own nominee in Delaware? When will this insanity stop?

"We encourage the NRSC to take a night off, get some sleep, and reconsider their rash statements. It is because of inexcusable conduct in Delaware and Alaska that so many conservatives have turned to the Tea Party Express, offering their support and their donations. These people have lost faith in the NRSC as just another big-government, Washington, D.C.-based organization that has contributed to the problems this country currently faces.

"If the NRSC is committed to defeating Democrats in November, then it is time for them to honor their mission statement and do just that. If they fail to do so, then they can expect millions of conservatives to continue to steer their donations and volunteer hours elsewhere.

"Wake up NRSC, the reason the tea party movement has grown into such a powerful force is because of the failures of establishment organizations such as yours to honor the principles of the Republican Party platform. You tried to force through the most liberal Republican in Congress on the voters of Delaware and they rejected you. Wake up, you are defying your own base, and will end up an irrelevant and impotent organization that serves to only amuse the corrupt political establishment in Washington, D.C.

"The Tea Party Express will back Christine O'Donnell in the general election along with every other candidate we've endorsed. We trust adults at the NRSC will come to their senses and realize that the people have spoken, and it's time for the NRSC to represent the Republicans it is supposed to represent."

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Defeated Castle says he won't back O'Donnell for Senate

U.S. Rep. Mike Castle will not back Christine O'Donnell in her bid for U.S. Senate after she defeated him Tuesday in the Republican primary, his campaign said this morning.

Whiny little bitch isn't he?

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NRSC: No Plans to Fund O’Donnell
September 14, 2010, 11:21 PM ET

The National Republican Senatorial Committee does not plan to spend money on its Delaware Senate nominee, Christine O’Donnell, an NRSC official said tonight.

So it wasn't Cornyn that said it... gotta love un-named sources that make these big pronouncements but don't have the spine to go on record.