Christine O'Donnell calls Karl Rove 'unfactual' (Video)



( Reuters/Tim Shaffer)

In a major coup for the tea party and for Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell won the the Republican nomination for the Delaware Senate seat. The Republican Party did not take the win well.

Tom Ross, the Delaware Republican Party chairman, said that O'Donnell was not a viable candidate and that she "could not be elected dog catcher" in Delaware. The National Republican Party announced it would not give her any funds. And Karl Rove went on Fox News and questioned why O'Donnell took so long to pay off her college debt and how she earns her income today.

This morning, O'Donnell fought back at the accusations saying, "Everything that [Rove] is saying is unfactual."

"This is the so-called political guru that said we couldn't win. And we won and we won big." O'Donnell told George Stephanopoulos that Rove is probably eating humble pie today.

When pushed on answering the questions Rove had asked, O'Donnell said she had answered them before on her Web site. "It took me 12 years to pay off my college loans. I'm not a trust fund baby," she said.

"I wanted to make this race about the issue: how we're going to get back jobs in Delaware, how we're going to defend the homeland of our security," O'Donnell said.

O'Donnell credited Sarah Palin's endorsement for her win. "It allowed them to get past the problems of personal destruction to look at the message."

She also seems to follow Palin's lead in wordplay. Unfactual is not defined in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Here's O'Donnell on "Good Morning America" today: