Tea Party favorite Ken Cuccinelli, abandoned by the Republican establishment as too “extreme” to win in Virginia, crushed Democrat Terry McAuliffe among independent voters by 9 percentage points, 47%-38%.
Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning, NBC’s Chuck Todd reported that New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie refused to campaign for Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Republican who narrowly lost his own governor’s race to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. “They begged Christie, and you can make an argument,” Todd said on Morning Joe. “That to bring a Chris Christie to Northern Virginia might have helped. But Chris Christie is worried about his own brand.”
The GOP establishment is making a serious mistake by under estimating the power of the TEA Party to take control of the party.
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A campaign strategist for Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said that the national GOP abandoned the campaign in its final days.
At the end of the race, Cuccinelli was closing in on Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who eked out a two-point victory on Tuesday despite exit polls that showed McAuliffe was up by seven points.
According to the Washington Post, Chris La Civita said that financial support from national Republican sources dried up on October 1.
I have a message for National GOP, Republican progressives and RINO’s of every stripe. I will never again vote for a Republican simply because he is not as bad as the Democrat. Hear this Republican Party until your candidate represents me I will NEVER vote for them. I will not vote for the lesser of two evils because I am tired of pretending the lesser evil is a better choice. So unless the Republican leaders wake up and embrace the Patriot Movement they better get used to losing. If they keep on their current course they will become a footnote for history. Of late the leaders seem a bit dense let me make the very clear. Keep undermining the Patriots and I do not care if Democrats hold every seat in the House and Senate I WILL NOT vote for a republican.
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Their actions concerning Cuccinelli were repulsive and I think this will actually strengthen the Tea Party not the other way a round.
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