The outside groups are going to take this and go nuclear on her,” said Georgia GOP strategist Joel McElhannon of the memos first published by the conservative magazine National Review, which said they were unintentionally uploaded briefly to Nunn’s campaign website in December.
Republicans, McElhannon said, will continue using the 144-page document to buttress their claims that Nunn is a “closet liberal” who’s “being dishonest with voters” by campaigning as a moderate “who is above all the usual politics.”
A top Nunn backer, former Democratic Rep. George “Buddy” Darden, downplayed the coming GOP offensive. “But this is all stuff they would say anyway,” he said. “This will ultimately just be a blip on the screen.”
For her part, Nunn said the disclosure doesn’t change her fundamental message. “What’s remained constant is we’re focused on talking about a collaborative approach … and changing the culture in Washington,” she told The Atlanta-Journal Constitution this week. Her campaign declined to make her available to The Associated Press.
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