Recent comments from John Ensign, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, seem to indicate that holding on to Virginia’s Senate seat isn’t a priority for the GOP:
Ensign identified the 10 most competitive races in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia. Two — Virginia and New Mexico — are heavily favored at this point to flip to Democratic control. Asked if the NRSC was mulling walking away from these two races to focus resources elsewhere, Ensign was non-committal, but added, “You don’t waste money on races that don’t need it or you can’t win.”
As I noted yesterday, Mark Warner has expanded on his lead over Jim Gilmore in the weeks since the race officially began, and there are few signs that things are going to change any time soon.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am
[...] I noted back in June, the National Republican Senatorial Committee was close to giving up on the Virginia race and concent… It seems Republicans in the rest of the country are starting to do the [...]