Todd Akin's aides are "making preparations" to quit the Missouri Senate race Tuesday, according to Richard Grenell, a Republican foreign policy aide who briefly worked for Mitt Romney. But that doesn't necessarily mean he's out. Akin said he's "not a quitter" on Mike Huckabee's radio show Monday, but the interview didn't ease much of the pressure on him to drop out. Though Akin?apologized for his rape comments,?the list of Republicans telling him to quit the Missouri Senate race has been adding more and more names of greater and greater significance. Here are the Republicans giving up on Akin so far:
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National Republican Senatorial Committee chair John Cornyn. The Texas senator said publicly that Akin's rape comments "wrong, offensive, and indefensible," and that? "over the next 24 hours, Congressman Akin should carefully consider what is best for him, his family, the Republican Party." That 24 hours part is really important -- Tuesday afternoon is the deadline for Akin to take himself off the ballot without a court order. And that was his public comment.
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In private, the NRSC told Akin that if he doesn't quit, it won't support his candidacy, CNN's Dana Bash reports.
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Crossroads GPS. The group Karl Rove founded is one of the most important outside spending groups this election. It is done with Akin, for now at least. After spending $5.4 million on ads in Missouri, it is pulling its ads in the state.
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Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown issued a statement saying, "As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin?s comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong. There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking." He called on Akin to quit.
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Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson?tweeted, "Todd Akin?s statements are reprehensible and inexcusable. He should step aside today for the good of the nation."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell didn't explicitly call on Akin to quit, but said Akin should think over "whether this statement will prevent him from effectively representing our party," according to NBC News' Mike O'Brien.
Others have condemned his comments -- the Mitt Romney campaign did so twice. But there are a few supporting him, like the Family Research Council.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/todd-akin-legitimately-quit-race-tomorrow-184749937.html
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