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Republican Senate candidates have been holding the firewall in the most high-profile races around the country: Joni Ernst in Iowa, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, Cory Gardner in Colorado. But one Republican Senate candidate in Michigan is doing exactly the opposite -- getting disowned by her own party.

If the Democrats hold the Senate, Republicans might be tempted to lay part of the blame at the feet of the floundering Terri Lynn Land for failing to win a vulnerable seat that could have secured a Senate majority.

The critics of Lands campaign have turned harsher recently, accusing Land of ignoring the normally requisite advance notice given before public appearances, and of ducking the press any time she feels threatened by its line of questioning, among other problems.

The Land campaign does not advertise her campaign events on its website ahead of time.

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Even more damning is that critics, including some Republicans, have declared her campaign dead.

After U.S. News called her campaign invisible last month, commentators have taken it one step further: just this past weekend, conservative radio host Frank Beckmann published an autopsy of Lands campaign in the Detroit Newsthree weeks before Election Day.

Earlier this month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee pulled almost a million dollars from Lands campaign

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