{"id":6867,"date":"2006-03-16T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2006-03-16T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T15:11:59","slug":"harris-stays-in-dems-exhale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/harris-stays-in-dems-exhale\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris stays in; Dems exhale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things looked bad for Senate candidate Katherine Harris (R-Fla.), but they looked even more distressing for Democrats. Harris suffered weak poll numbers, poor fundraising, and a staff that kept quitting. Then, to complicate matters, she was caught accepting illegal campaign contributions from a corrupt defense contractor. Dems wanted Harris weakened before she took on Sen. Bill Nelson (D) in November, but not so weak that she&#8217;d have to drop out. After all, Dems thought, what if the GOP finds a <i>competitive<\/i> candidate for the campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Never fear, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/orl-bk-harris031506,0,1455346.story?coll=orl-news-headlines\">Harris isn&#8217;t going anywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Katherine Harris used a national television audience tonight to try to jump-start her faltering Senate campaign, announcing that she would pour $10 million of her own money into the race.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217; appearance on the Fox News program Hannity &#038; Colmes capped weeks of speculation about whether she would drop out of the race against Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. because of problems with fundraising, staff turnover and the fallout from her acceptance of illegal campaign contributions. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in this race. I&#8217;m going to win,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to put everything on the line. &#8230; everything that I have, and I am going to put it in this race.&#8221; The $10 million will come from an inheritance from Harris father, she said, who died earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That cheering sound you hear is coming from Bill Nelson&#8217;s campaign office.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, Harris&#8217; Fox News appearance came just a couple of hours after a University of North Florida poll was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20060316-122826-5769r_page2.htm\">released<\/a>, showing Nelson leading Harris, 48% to 28%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things looked bad for Senate candidate Katherine Harris (R-Fla.), but they looked even more distressing for Democrats. Harris suffered weak poll numbers, poor fundraising, and a staff that kept quitting. Then, to complicate matters, she was caught accepting illegal campaign contributions from a corrupt defense contractor. Dems wanted Harris weakened before she took on Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}