Campbell contends that DeLay’s problems would cause him to lose the general election in the 22nd District, which normally has a solidly Republican lean, in part because Democrats have made him the embodiment of a “culture of corruption” that they accuse the Republican congressional majority of fomenting.
This part of the statement by Campbell sounds to me like something that a candidate, who thinks he is going to lose, would make. Some Republican he is to lend validity to the false accusations of Democrats.