The National Republican Senatorial Campaign is moving to take charge of the troubled re-election campaign of Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), deploying one of its campaign fixers to Kansas, the New York Times reported Thursday. The move comes after the state’s U.S. Senate race was upended when the Democratic nominee announced Wednesday that he was dropping out.
The Times reported that Chris LaCivita, a longtime GOP operative known as “a political troubleshooter in past Republican campaigns,” would be in Kansas by the weekend to assist Roberts.
Democratic candidate Chad Taylor asked to be dropped from the ballot Wednesday, leaving independent candidate Greg Orman to face off with Roberts. An August poll from Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling found that Orman was leading Roberts by 10 percentage points in a head-to-head match-up.
The Times reported that the Roberts campaign has not aired any television ads since the Aug. 5 GOP primary, which Roberts won with less than a majority of the vote, while Orman has been consistently on the air. Roll Call also reported Thursday that Roberts had not been actively campaigning for about a month.
Question: Do they call Chris LaCivita “The Wolf?”
And… 10 points is a pretty damn big hole to climb out of.
Rethugs are running scared now…Don’t ya just love it?
“Quick, get ‘The Fixer’ on the phone. We need to stop the bleeding.”
National GOP…Is that a euphemism for the Koch Bros., Karl Rove or Prince Rebus?
Koch of Kansas will have their own mega-dollar gameplan I’m sure.
Roberts, the Republican Visitor, er Senator…
Is this Roberts’ Coakley impersonation? You know, where you do nothing but expect to get elected?