DNC to spend at least $5 million on Virginia’s Governor’s race

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Democratic National Committee says it will spend at least $5 million to aid Creigh Deeds in his race for governor and other statewide races this fall.

National Party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said that by the Nov. 3 election, the DNC will at least match its stake in the election of Tim Kaine as governor in 2005.

Kaine took over in January as chairman of the DNC and faces high expectations of keeping the governor’s office in Democratic hands for a third consecutive term.

The most recent statewide poll shows Deeds trailing Republican Bob McDonnell.

The DNC has already put about $1 million into the Virginia race and will pump about $4 million more into Deeds’ campaign and the state Democratic Party in the two-month stretch run to election day.