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she has told the national media, no more interviews, but our jim acosta caught up with her in delaware yesterday and joins us live from washington now. you were telling us yesterday she said call dave. did you call dave? exactly. i did call dave. and just to set this up. as you know, yesterday on american morning, we played our piece basically about this event that happened wednesday night in newark, delaware, where we caught up with christine o donnell and reminded her that she had told cnn she would continue to do interviews with us after her primary victory and she hasn t really done that. so we reminded her of that. she said call dave, call my press guy dave and we ll set it up. and she delivered. so we went over to her headquarters yesterday and asked her about a variety of subjects. obviously we talked to her about the tapes that appeared on realtime with bill maher on
but chris says he s taking nothing for granted. do you take her seriously? i take her seriously. she is the republican nominee. she is my opponent. she s raised i think 2.8 million over the internet in the last few weeks. she seems to have a commanding 8.9 lead. there are unknown voters, still, and this is across all three counties. one volunteer says she s sticking with o donnell despite her missteps. doesn t concern you at all? not at all. if anything, i support her even more. i put my name on the line, and i ve tape a lot of the hits, a lot of slander, a lot of character assassination. then she headed out the back door where she said she would give us an interview soon. call dave and we ll set
delaware gun rights group. it s one of those endorsements that she s going to need one of those core constituencies that christine o donnell needs to win this race in just a few weeks from now. john and kiran. love it. it s great. she promised she s going to talk to you. she said call dave. reporter: we ll see. i ll call him right after this. exactly. she said, jim, she was going to ignore the national media and instead the local media. do you know if she s doing any interviews with local press? reporter: from what we understand, no. she may have taken a couple of questions here or there from the local media. we actually talked to some folks from one of the affiliates in philadelphia that cnn does business with. and they told us at one of the events just recently that christine o donnell held that she actually tried to keep the national media out and let the local press in. that is not an unusual approach. there are other campaigns who would like to keep it local and just tal
missteps. hasn t changed your mind at all? not at all. if anything, i support her more. reporter: o donnell can complained of being under siege. i ve put my name on the line. and i ve taken a lot of hits, a lot of slander and a lot of character assassination. reporter: then she left out the back door where she promise shed would give an interview soon. call dave and we ll set something up. promise? yes, yes. reporter: you heard her right there, she promised. i just have to call dave. i have his number. he s the press secretary for the campaign. and she said she would talk to us. i should mention we re standing in front of a gun range. her campaign manager said she ll be out here today. we don t know if she ll fire any weapons but she is picking up the endorsement of a local gun rights group. that s one of the core constituencies if she hopes to win this campaign. she s going to need all of those conservative republicans to show up as they did in the primary. standing