Land claims Republican Party has not pulled the plug

Contrary to numerous news reports indicating that the national GOP apparatus has "pulled out" of Michigan, Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land insisted on Monday that the party has not abandoned her.
Her contest with Democratic Congressman Gary Peters, she said, is still "definitely a national race." Reports that the Republican National Senatorial Committee had pulled the plug on an estimated $850,000 in TV ads on her behalf are misleading, Land claimed.
"First of all, it was not the Republican National Committee. It was not the Republican Senatorial Committee. This is one of those outside groups. There are a lot of outside groups in this race," she said in an interview with Macomb Daily reporters and editors.

Land was apparently referring to the inner workings of the RNSC, which is split into two groups. The effort to spin the story goes like this: A separate subcommittee that decides where to invest the RNSC's ad dollars made the decision to cancel the GOP advertising in Michigan.
A Land campaign staffer added that the RNSC is still providing strategy, press releases and assistance with the "ground game" as Election Day approaches. 

Nonetheless, the many news organizations that have reported on the GOP's exit from Michigan includes the conservative website Newsmax. Last week, Newsmax ran a piece that bemoaned the NRSC decision to bail out based on this premise: Gov. Snyder is pulling away so why not stay?
This quote was included in the story: "Pulling out prematurely on Terri when the governor is running strong is a big mistake," Saul Anuzis, former state party chairman and GOP national committeeman, told Newsmax. "Michigan is a purple state that can go red under the right circumstances."

According to an NRSC spokesman, the decision on advertising buys are made not by the committee itself but by an independent expenditure (IE) committee made up of GOP consultants. Under federal campaign regulations, the NRSC and its IE committee are "walled off" from one another and are barred from interacting.
Before its exit from Michigan on Oct. 7, the IE committee of the NRSC had aired an estimated $1.5 million in TV attack ads targeting Peters.