Have Republican groups left Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk's re-election campaign for dead? It sure seems that way, reports James Arkin:
Through the entire 2016 cycle, the outside spending on Kirk’s behalf represents just a fraction of the total money spent on GOP incumbents, and significantly lags behind the amount spent to back his colleagues in tough races. And as groups strategize and lock in future spending, so far there appear to be no plans to put big money behind the Illinois lawmaker’s re-election campaign against Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth. [...]
“It is an enormously difficult state to be a Republican running statewide in a presidential year,” said one party operative who works for an outside group and who requested anonymity to discuss strategy. “I think you could bring Abraham Lincoln back from the dead to try for the Senate seat and he would have trouble in 2016, or he would be a decided underdog in 2016.”
Perfect. Let's make certain this is a sure get for Duckworth and Democrats.
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