the senate primary anyway with the backing of sarah palin. so again, you betcha! there s another woman i ve got to thank. thank you, governor palin for your endorsement. she got behind us folks and gave us a boost of encouragement when we needed it. and she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction. jessica yellin is live in dover, delaware, this morning. you betcha. we are looking i m looking at the numbers of people who turned out in the republican party primary. by my count, o donnell won about 28,000 republican votes. and the big question this morning, of course, is how many more can she win? and will it be enough to take delaware? reporter: well, candy, as you
she got elected by the tea party, why don t they throw money at her and we ll see if she can become viable. how deep is this rift? and can she win in delaware? i think the numbers probably aren t there in delaware. but we ve seen again and again this season, you can t count out the tea party. again, we ve seen this turn around over and over. i think money matters. but look at alaska. joe miller, lisa murkowski outspent joe miller 18 to 1 and still lost. i think delaware is just too moderate a state. mike castle has won more than, i guess a dozen times statewide, a moderate candidate. there s no evidence that delaware wants a candidate as conservative as christine o donnell. and while kate was talking there, i thought i want to go take a look at the chris coons for senate website. on the website it says, it s
call me christine. i better call you ms. o donnell. i ll get in trouble. let me ask you this. already your opponent in this race down there, chris coons the county executive in new castle has on his website this morni morning not a picture of himself when you go to his main page, but a picture of you. and it says it s official, meet our gop opponent christine o donnell. he looks pretty eager to be running against you, ms. o donnell, what do you think about that? well, i thank him for introducing me to the democratic voters that i have not met. we have a lot of democrats working on my team right now. and our message is resinating with voters up and down the state because even the democrats are frustrated with failed policies coming out of washington, d.c. so i thank him for introducing me to future o donnell supporters. christine, i ll call you christine and you can call me candy. and let me ask you, we ve seen some of the headlines this morning there s one on politico calli
know, democrats and actually many leading republicans this morning are saying no, it can t. it is this rare, rare instance where leaders of o donnell s own party are publicly saying she cannot possibly win a general election. in this state, almost half of the voters are registered democrats. it is a very moderate state where another third are independents. and a sense among the establishment is that christine o donnell doesn t have the track record and actually has too many skeletons in her closet to win them over. that s why her own party was gunning for her and trying to keep her from winning the primary yesterday. but she said look, she s done it without them before and she ll do it without them again. i asked her, candy, i got a chance to talk to her last night. and i asked her point-blank about reports we have that her own party or national party says they won t even fund her campaign here because they don t think she can win. here s what she said in an interview last night. w
your response. when you were speaking at an out of state group recently and you told them that you won two out of three counties in delaware, what did you mean? i don t think i ever said i won two out of three counties, but i certainly well, let s listen to the audio. hold on one second, i have the audio right now. of the 2008 against joe biden and i won in two counties. we didn t have the support of our liberal republicans then. you know what that probably was, you re on the campaign trail a lot, i meant tied. that was pretty clear cut. and then you said you didn t say that. and you had said it. which is it? right. well well, at that event, my campaign manager actually corrected me. he said won. because the reality is we nearly tied the vice presidential candidate in two out of three counties and won some districts in sussex county. should that raise the