{"id":3845,"date":"2008-10-14T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/politico-gop-ditches-white-to-help-incumbents\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:53:00","slug":"politico-gop-ditches-white-to-help-incumbents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/politico-gop-ditches-white-to-help-incumbents\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: GOP ‘ditches’ White to help incumbents"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If Darren White<\/a> is going to win the 1st Congressional District race, it appears that he\u2019s going to have to do it without much help from national Republicans. <\/p>\n

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In an article headlined \u201cGOP ditches recruits to save incumbents,\u201d The Politico<\/a> takes a look today at how national Republican woes are affecting White\u2019s battle against Democrat Martin Heinrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The early excitement about the prospect of White replacing Heather Wilson<\/a> in Congress has been sacrificed, The Politico article states.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDarren White and Erik Paulsen<\/a> were prized Republican recruits, House candidates poised to be the new face of the GOP on Capitol Hill,\u201d the article states. \u201cBut as the two head into the homestretch of their campaigns, GOP operatives say they\u2019ll probably have to win — or lose — on their own. The money national Republicans earmarked for White in New Mexico<\/st1:state> and for Paulsen in Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> will likely go instead to protect GOP incumbents who once looked like locks for reelection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGOP Reps. John B. Shadegg<\/a> of Arizona, Lee Terry<\/a> of Nebraska, Henry Brown Jr.<\/a> of South Carolina and Dan Lungren<\/a> of California are all fighting for their political lives, a reversal of fortunes that has caught even the most astute campaign observers by surprise,\u201d the article states.<\/p>\n

The news isn\u2019t all bad for White. The cash-strapped National Republican Congressional Committee<\/a> (NRCC) recently cancelled two-thirds of its planned television ad buy<\/a> in White\u2019s district, which amounted to about $500,000. But Freedom\u2019s Watch<\/a> has spent just under $500,000 on television ads attacking Heinrich and could spend more. And, this week, the state GOP is out with its own ad attacking Heinrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Still, White faces a difficult road ahead. He\u2019s trailing slightly in the polls. Heinrich has announced that he raised $750,000<\/a> during the third quarter of the year, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee<\/a> (DCCC) is spending big on top of that to help him.<\/p>\n

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White\u2019s woes are a symptom of national problems for the GOP. According to The Politico, at the end of August the DCCC had $54 million in cash to the NRCC\u2019s $14.3 million. While the DCCC has spent money in 34 districts currently held by Republicans, the NRCC has spent money in only 13 districts, and 10 of them are districts it is trying to defend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Darren White is going to win the 1st Congressional District race, it appears that he\u2019s going to have to do it without much help from national Republicans. In an article headlined \u201cGOP ditches recruits to save incumbents,\u201d The Politico takes a look today at how national Republican woes are affecting White\u2019s battle against Democrat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}