Cuccinelli Campaign Says National GOP Abandoned Them: 'We Were on Our Own'

Cuccinelli Campaign Says National GOP Abandoned Them: 'We Were on Our Own'

on Tue, 5 Nov 2013

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 atwo-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.  

“There are a lot of questions people are going to be asking and that is, was leaving Cuccinelli alone in the first week of October, a smart move?” La Civita said after Cuccinelli's concession speech, according to the Post. “We were on our own. Just look at the volume [of ads].”

He added that there was "definitely a national mood that was moving, that is moving, that is continuing to move against the White House and the Affordable Care Act. And I can’t help but ask myself, what would have been the result had he had five weeks of this discussion instead of just 2 ½?”

A Cuccinnelli advisor, speaking to the Daily Caller, said that Republican Governor's Association chairman Bobby Jindal and his team "totally blew it." He added, "Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign is over. He screwed this up so bad. And I don’t know why. The campaign knew it was moving numbers over ObamaCare. And the RGA was not very far from that information, they could have obtained it themselves...They just blew it....They just took their money and spent it in New Jersey where we took a 17 point win to a 20 point win. They had a system — they had a process....I don’t know what their strategic thinking is. It just doesn’t make sense to me."