NRSC Pledges Not To "Weigh In" On Senate Primary

DeLay, Blunt & Cornyn in 2005

Update: In a story about this same topic, the Star's David Goldstein writes that "Republicans are feeling pretty nervous - about their own voters."

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has promised that the organization will not spend money in a contested GOP primary between Roy Blunt, Chuck Purgason and any other candidates.

With Republicans grappling with the fallout of an intra-party battle that may have cost them a House seat, the head of the Senate Republican campaign effort is making a pledge that may ease some of the anger being directed at the party establishment.

"We will not spend money in a contested primary," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told ABC News in a telephone interview today.

"There's no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have to look at our resources. . . . We're not going to throw money into a [primary] race leading up to the election."

Cornyn said his pledge extends to the primaries in Missouri, Illinois, Florida and Pennsylvania.

h/t The Plum Line

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