Ambinder: NRSC pulling out of Colorado next week

UPDATED 8:34 A.M. 10/17/2008

Confirming earlier rumors, the National Republican Senatorial Committee will be pulling out of Colorado next week,The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder is reporting.

The NRSC's withdrawal from the Colorado U.S. Senate race is an acknowledgement that its resources would be better spent on other races, Ambinder stated, including Roger Wicker in Mississippi, Norm Coleman in Minnesota, and John Sununu in New Hampshire.

Ambinder cited unnamed Republican sources in Colorado and Washington.

Dick Wadhams, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Schaffer's manager and Colorado GOP chair, said he couldn't confirm that the NRSC would be leaving Colorado next week. 

"The NRSC is on the air in Colorado, saw the ad this morning." Wadhams said in an email.

A phone call to the NRSC was not immediately returned Friday morning.

Democrats were jubilant at the news.

Matthew Miller, communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said in an email that the news meant that the NRSC was "abandoning" Schaffer and "essentially conceding the seat to Democrat Mark Udall."

Udall spokeswoman Tara Trujillo said in an email that "These outside special interest groups are finding out the hard way that their millions of dollars in dishonest, mean-spirited attack ads didn't sway our independent-minded voters or stop Mark Udall from standing up for Coloradans."