Christine O'Donnell thinks her lack of GOP support cast a spell on her bid to win Delaware's Senate seat.
The day after her double-digit loss to Democrat Chris Coons, the Tea Party darling and one-time wanna-be witch said she wished the state and national Republican party backed her more enthusiastically during the campaign.
"I think the only thing that really would have made a difference is if the Delaware GOP had unified," O'Donnell told "Good Morning America." "Unfortunately, that still hasn't happened."
"If we had done that in Delaware, I think there would have been a drastically different outcome," she said.
Even the backing of Tea Party giant Sarah Palin couldn't propel O'Donnell beyond her shocking upset in the GOP primary in September. However, Palin never appeared with O'Donnell in Delaware in the race's final weeks.
Karl Rove, the influential former adviser to President George W. Bush, was one of O'Donnell's harshest critics within the GOP. On Tuesday night, he took one more shot at the candidate.
"Look, it gave me no pleasure to say she was unlikely to win," Rove, a Fox News panelist, said during the network's Election Day coverage. "This again proves a lesson. This is a candidate right on the issues, but had mishandled a series of questions raised by the press early on in the race about her background and previous statements."
Palin, who appeared with Rove, disagreed, saying that O'Donnell's defeat came "in a deep blue state – not a surprise."
O'Donnell's campaign the past two months was dogged by past statements the candidate made, including admitting to dabbling in witchcraft and equating masturbation to adultery.
In recent weeks, she also took heat for an ad where she says, "I'm not a witch," and for her belief that the Constitution does not include the separation of church and state.
Still, she said she's proud of what her campaign accomplished while running against "the whole Democratic establishment."
"We should have lost by 30, so I'm very proud of our results," O'Donnell said. According to The Associated Press, Coons beat O'Donnell 57% to 40%.
When asked if she'll continue to be part of the political scene, O'Donnell said her immediate plans are to be a voice for small-business owners as the debate over tax cuts rages in Congress.
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