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Today's final deadline for embattled Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin to withdraw from the race is just hours away, and he has scheduled a news conference at 3:00 pm ET.
Is he potentially dropping out of the contest?
Not a chance, his campaign says.
"Staying in the race, as we've said," Ryan Hite, the campaign's communications director, said in a text message to NBC News.
"Just kicking off bus tour today and talking about Missouri Commonsense values as the bus tour title suggests," Hite continued. "Nothin[g] earth shattering."
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According to Akin's campaign website, the Missouri Common Sense Bus Tour launches today and runs through Friday.
*** UPDATE *** Declaring that he "was given a trust" after winning a three-way Republican primary contest in August, Akin this afternoon affirmed he wouldn't quit his senate race.
"Over the period of the last number of weeks, a number of people have asked me, 'Are you quitting, are you dropping out?" Akin told supporters this afternoon. He added, "I don't believe that that is really my decision. The decision was made by the voters of the state of Missouri."
The event, meant to mark the kickoff of Akin's bus tour, was billed as a press conference, though Akin didn't take questions from the media.
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I like Todd Akin, actually, although I disagree with him completely.
If nothing else, he speaks his truth....something which Romney and Ryan never do.
I hope that McCaskill wins in November, but I can appreciate the thorn-in-the-side honesty from a guy like Akin who would likely give his Republican colleagues fits in the Senate during Obama's second term.
Todd Aikin, along with Inhofe, Boozer, Burr, Toomey, and Johanns, are clearly the Senate's lowest forms of life.
It baffles me how any citizen with even a whit of decency and patriotism could vote for these clowns.
They left of the trailing comment which was:
Akin is a dumb-ass to think he has any change of winning. He is just doing this to say "f*** you" to the guys that told him to drop out.
It's really great when the RETHUG party apparatus is between a rock and a hard place. Akin won't quit (too damned STUPID, hard headed and convinced that he is "correct" (we won't say "right" because we KNOW he's "right-winged) and unable to see the writing on the wall); the party REFUSES to endorse him and provide more money (pearls before swine? - or it is just feeding the pigs); so they are in what looks to be a "no-win" situation. DAMNED IF THEY DO; DAMNED IF THEY DON'T; just plain DAMNED NO MATTER WHAT)