NRCC still shying away from Labrador

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State Rep. Raul Labrador is fresh off an upset victory in the Idaho GOP primary against Vaughn Ward, but he still has some fence-mending to do with the National Republican Congressional Committee before winning their support for his general election campaign against Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick.

The NRCC doesn’t have any immediate plans to add Labrador to its expansive list of 110 favored Young Gun recruits, according to several sources familiar with their thinking, even though he’s the newly-minted nominee in one of the most conservative districts held by a Democrat — a seat that was once one of the GOP’s leading targets.

Labrador will be visiting Washington next Wednesday and will meet with NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions and top committee staff to keep committee officials abreast of his general election strategy, and inform them of plans to raise enough money to run a competitive race. But committee officials said the meeting probably won't mean inclusion in the Young Guns program, until he starts putting together a first-tier campaign infrastructure.

Labrador starts the general election without much of the staff that helped him prevail in the primary and virtually out of campaign cash, with less than $35,000 in the bank.

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