Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said Wednesday she can win her race without national Republican support, and needs only $1 million to do so.

O'Donnell, fresh off a conservative upset over Rep. Mike Castle (R), dismissed talk that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) might not support her.

"That's a shame, but they never thought I could win this race, and I believe that we can win without them," O'Donnell said of the NRSC on ABC'S "Good Morning America."

"They also said that Ronald Reagan wasn't electable," she later added.

Fox News had reported Tuesday evening that the NRSC would give no support to O'Donnell, though a senior GOP aide didn't shut the door to adding support, saying that the committee would be "watching" the race.

But O'Donnell's win caused projection services to immediately shift their predictions in the race to favor Democrat Chris Coons, since O'Donnell, a two-time Senate candidate, had failed badly in her previous bids.

O'Donnell said she was confident that money would take care of itself, though, and that she wouldn't need that much to win.

"I don't know if we'll get money from the national Republican Party, but I know we're going to get the money that we need," she said on NBC's "Today" show.

"We need about a million dollars to finish this last month and a half," she added.

She'll need the support. A pre-primary report with the Federal Election Commission showed that, through Aug. 25, O'Donnell had just over $20,000 in cash on hand and had raised just about $260,000 for the cycle.

Sen. Burris plans to press ahead with his effort to persuade the Supreme Court to allow him to participate in a post-election lame-duck session.

Republicans are confident their gubernatorial candidates in key battleground states will boost the party’s chances in Senate and House races.

Party-backed candidate Kelly Ayotte held less than a one-point lead over a Tea Party challenger.

Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty was upset in the Democratic primary Tuesday by D.C. City Council Chairman Vincent Gray.

New Hampshire Republican Charlie Bass is one step closer to getting his old job back.

The former congressman, who lost to now-Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) in 2006, defeated broadcaster Jennifer Horn (R) and Bob Giuda, a former state lawmaker, in Tuesday’s 2nd district primary.

Bass had 42 percent of the vote to 35 for Horn and 18 for Giuda. With 142 of 188 precincts reporting, The Associated Press declared him the winner.

Hodes is running for the Senate, and his Democratic-leaning district is seen as a possible pickup for Republicans.

Bass and Horn clashed over support for congressional term limits, while Giuda, the party's 2008 nominee, touted his experience.

Tea Party support was also an issue in this race.

When he kicked off his campaign in February, Bass proclaimed his affection for the conservative Tea Party. "I love them," he told reporters. "God bless every single one of them. Their agenda is exactly the same as mine."

But Horn attacked Bass relentlessly for tacitly endorsing congressional spending increases during his six terms in office.

"I really think he's kidding himself," Horn said about Bass’s embrace of the Tea Party. "The Tea Party is looking for a return to limited spending, limited government. Charlie stood for and voted for exactly the opposite of that throughout his tenure in Congress."

Ultimately, she raised less than $200,000 for her campaign. Bass, on the other hand, pulled in more than $530,000.

Bass faces Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in November.

Vito Fossella was powerless to halt former FBI agent Michael Grimm's march to the GOP nomination for his former Staten Island House seat.

The former Republican congressman endorsed Grimm's rival, businessman Michael Allegretti, on the weekend before the primary vote. Allegretti finished with 35 percent of the vote to 65 for Grimm. The Associated Press called the race with just over half the precincts reporting.

Fossella was thought to hold considerable sway among Staten Island Republicans despite being forced into retirement last cycle after a 2008 drunken-driving arrest revealed he had a second family in the Washington suburbs.

Party officials asked him to run again this cycle but he declined.

Instead, he had been supporting Allegretti behind the scenes but made his backing public to help push him across the finish line, a source close to the Allegretti campaign told The Ballot Box.

Meanwhile, Grimm had the support of Sarah Palin and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as well as several veterans groups.

During the primary, Allegretti accused Grimm of distributing a candidate photo that showed Grimm wearing medals he wasn't awarded. Grimm denied the charge.

"This is the last bullet in his gun," Grimm told the New York Observer. "He is extremely desperate. … I did serve, and I did serve honorably and I have the paperwork to prove it."

Iraq Veterans for Congress, a veterans group that has endorsed Grimm, also came to his defense. 

Rep. Mike McMahon (D-N.Y.) voted against the healthcare reform bill, but Grimm has sought to make the lawmaker’s opposition to repealing the healthcare legislation an issue in the campaign.

"He's on both sides," Grimm said. "That's going to be a big problem. My district has a tremendous amount of seniors; they are very nervous. We don't have a public hospital, so healthcare is a huge issue in my district, a huge issue."

McMahon is a top Republican target this cycle. 

NEW YORK -- Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said "I go back to Washington stronger than I've ever been."

Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) will face wealthy businessman Randy Altschuler in November.

Altschuler is running on a unified Conservative-GOP line.

Republicans have liked their chances of picking off Bishop. But the party's three-way primary contest didn't leave any of the candidates with over 50 percent of the vote. Altschuler finished first with 45 percent of the vote, former prosecutor George Demos had 30 percent and third with 24 percent was business consultant Chris Cox, the son of the state GOP chairman, Edward Cox, and a grandson of President Richard Nixon.

Cox had the support of several Tea Party organizations but Altschuler had the endorsement of the Conservative Party, which may help him keep the right unified going into November.

Still, money that could have gone toward blasting Bishop was burned up in the nomination contest. Altschuler and Cox spent a combined $3 million of their own money on the primary campaign.