Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Michelle Nunn (GA) attempted to brush off leaked documents extensively laying out her campaign strategy by saying this went way beyond the transparency she had anticipated.
“I always thought I wanted to run an open and transparent campaign but this has gone beyond what I anticipated or intended,” Nunn said according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Nunn’s comments published on Thursday come after National Review reported on a massive clump of documents and memos laying out recommendations and analysis for Nunn’s campaign for Senate, which said that Nunn’s strategy would include reaching out to African-American voters. The documents were posted online for a brief period of time in December and were reported by National Review on Monday.
Jeff DiSantis, Nunn’s campaign manager, responded to the leaked documents by saying they were drafts.
“Like all good plans, they change,” DiSantis said in a statement. Nunn somewhat repeated DiSantis to the Journal-Constitution.
“First of all, the set of memos were a set of advice that I was getting from a variety of folks. I’m getting advice every day from everybody parents to friends to my children,” Nunn said. “The nature of campaigns is every evolving, but what’s remained constant is we’re focused on talking about a collaborative approach and the importance of bipartisanship and problem-solving. And changing the culture in Washington. That’s what we talked about from the beginning.”
Nunn is facing Businessman David Perdue in the general election for United States Senate. The TPM Polltracker average currently gives Perdue a 6.7 point lead over Nunn.
I hope that’s not an exact transcript of her remarks.
She has a chance, but she seems intent to blow it. She reminds me of Robin Carhanan.
Sorry, but i fail to see where the controversy is here, and why she seems to be distancing herself from these documents. She is running for office and needs a strategy for not only appealing to a wide variety of voters, but also getting them mobilized. Why would she be ashamed of that? Am i missing something?
I expect she will be fine… but folks have to GOTV!
Absolutely ridiculous. It’s bad enough that the GOP is a festering gob of puss, but then somebody on the Dem side goes and admits that they really only care about getting some of that sweet donor money, too. Own up to it and then focus on actually selling your platform to the voters, not on wining and dining the deep pockets.