Laura Ingraham said Tuesday on her radio show that she’d invited Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, to come on the show, but that he never responded.

“I ran into Gillespie outside of Fox News about three or four weeks ago,” Ingraham told guest Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) “And there’s been no love lost between the two of us. But I tried to be the bigger person. And I went up to him, I called out to him and he walked over because we were outside, and I said, ‘Ed, I know you and I have disagreed on a lot of stuff and you’re not wild about me, and I’m not wild about you. But I’ll help you. If you need me, call on me and I’ll help you in Virginia.'”

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Ingraham said Gillespie never reached out to her, and though she’s invited him on her radio show, he’s never agreed to come on.

“We’ve invited him on the show, this radio show,” she said. “He refuses to come on the radio show despite its popularity throughout the commonwealth. And that tells you everything you need to know.”

But Gillespie isn’t the only one.

“You know who else didn’t come on my show?” Ingraham asked. “Eric Cantor, John Boehner, George W. Bush in his second term — runnin’ away — Mitch McConnell, none of them will come on the show. Jeff Flake, John McCain, add to the list …”

The track record of people who have not accepted an invitation to be a guest on “The Laura Ingraham Show” is not good, the host pointed out.

“It’s not working out for any of these people,” said Ingraham.

Ed Gillespie is a former Capitol Hill staffer and Republican political consultant who served as a top adviser to President George W. Bush and Mitt Romney. He announced his plan to run for governor of Virginia in 2015 and won the Republican nomination in June of this year. He’s facing Democratic nominee Ralph Northam, the current lieutenant governor.

Two of the three most recent polls show him down, though the most recent one, a Monmouth poll released on Tuesday, has him up by 1 point over Northam.

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According to RealClearPolitics, the Democratic Party sees the race as a must-win, given that it’s one of only 15 governorships the party now holds and given that Hillary Clinton won the state in 2016.

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Former President George W. Bush was in Virginia campaigning with Gillespie on Tuesday.

Ingraham pointed out that the former president campaigned for his brother, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, but just one time.

“Obviously, that didn’t work out so well for Bush,” she said.

Brat said Gillespie needs to go further on the issue of immigration than just opposing sanctuary cities, and said he needs to get support from Ingraham and also from President Donald Trump.

“He’s gotta motivate everyone in the commonwealth,” he said, adding that he hopes Gillespie will agree to go on Ingraham’s radio show in the closing weeks of the campaign.

(photo credit, homepage image: Ed Gillespie, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore; photo credit, article image: Ed Gillespie, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore)