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Sun Sentinel
April 25, 2018
“One, two, three, not it!” about a dozen children shouted at the Wellington Amphitheater playground, as the Celebrate America event started. The free event, hosted by the Palm Beach Tea Party and Turning Point USA, featured speakers such as conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman, regionalÃâà...
NPR
April 25, 2018
Bissett's chamber endorsed one Democrat and one Republican in the race, but not Ojeda. He's skeptical of Ojeda's campaign. "He may have a lot of people going to Facebook and watching his videos, [but] that may not translate into votes either in a Democratic primary or a general election," said Bissett.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
April 25, 2018
State Election Commissioners Tuesday unanimously rejected a complaint from the Jefferson County Republican Executive Committee alleging that a moderate Republican county commissioner had violated the state Code of Fair Campaign Practices by encouraging Democrats to register as independentsÃâà...
West Virginia MetroNews
April 25, 2018
New numbers from the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office show a downward trend in Democratic registrations continues with 524,964 of residents voters registered now as Democrats, down ... In West Virginia, independents can choose to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary elections.
Alabama Today
April 25, 2018
The polls concluded that Scott Dawson is the favorite in the Republican governor's race, remaining undefeated in grassroots straw polls thus far this election season. “Our winning track record in grassroots straw polls reflects the support I see every single day on the campaign trail,” Dawson said. “We'reÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 24, 2018
“I consider myself a voice for working people,” he told me during his re-election campaign in 2016. “I have never voted to diminish or impair pensions. I'm a conservative Republican and constitutionalist. The Constitution is painfully clear that pensions shall not be diminished or impaired. I think the tea partyÃâà...
Vox
April 24, 2018
Back before the 2016 election, it was easy to find so-called Never Trump Republicans (NTRs). They were thick ... To wit: NTRs should vote Democrat. Perhaps in races ... The point of voting Democratic would not be to shape the Democratic policy agenda but to ensure Republican defeat. More on that in aÃâà...
New York Times
April 17, 2018
The Tea Party movement reflected a popular dissatisfaction with cultural change, of which Mr. Obama's election was a powerful symbol. Politicians ... This year, Democratic candidates remain focused on challenging vulnerable Republican-held seats more than purging ideologically impure incumbents.
Galesburg Register-Mail
April 1, 2018
Leading up to the election, many experts questioned whether or not Democrats would turn out in greater numbers across the state as a reaction to Donald Trump's presidency, much like how the Tea Party rallied Republican voters in the 2010 midterm election during Barack Obama's first term. While federalÃâà...
Toledo Blade
March 31, 2018
When area Republicans gather Tuesday at the Parkway Place in Maumee for the 2018 Lucas County Lincoln Day Dinner, there will undoubtedly be a lot of talk about unity and what President Trump's triumph in the 2016 presidential election could bring to this fall's elections. But there is, of course, a seamyÃâà...
Hopkinsville Kentucky New Era
March 26, 2018
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A nonpartisan group says in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that a super PAC has been improperly organizing and funding activities for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Mississippi. The Washington-based Campaign Legal Center filed the complaint MondayÃâà...
The Hill
March 26, 2018
Election outcomes, particularly midterm congressional elections, are decided by two factors: mechanics and mystery. The mechanics are easily ... The Tea Party disabled the precise engineering devised by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to protect its House majority. It swept over itsÃâà...
Dallas News
March 23, 2018
Republican and Democratic leaders came across to tea party activists as equally uninterested in their worries about immigration, the loss of jobs and industry to global economic competition, and a social agenda of "political correctness" pushed by academia and the media. Trump built his movement byÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 13, 2018
Raj Goyle, a Democrat who ran against Pompeo in 2010, said Pompeo never spoke out against a billboard in the final days before the election that said "Vote American, vote Pompeo" overlaid on a stylized U.S. flag. Goyle is a U.S.-born citizen of Indian heritage. Pompeo's campaign said it was not involvedÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 7, 2018
Greg Abbott and the state's top Tea Party group — Empower Texans — went hard after "squishy" Republicans who bucked the governor or strayed too far from ... Greg Abbott put his own campaign money and clout on the line, he mostly came up empty-handed, failing to defeat maverick Republican Reps.
Houston Public Media
March 7, 2018
Greg Abbott and the state's top Tea Party group — Empower Texans — went hard after “squishy” Republicans who bucked the governor or strayed too far from ... Greg Abbott put his own campaign money and clout on the line, he mostly came up empty-handed, failing to defeat maverick Republican Reps.
Chicago Tribune
March 5, 2018
We've come up slightly since then, but we're still in a big hole, and there are those who want to have a 'tea party of the left' in the Democratic Party to match, ... Lipinski said Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election represented a failure of Democrats to demonstrate the party'sÃâà...
1340 WJOL
December 31, 1999
Illinois incumbent congressman Dan Lipinski from the 3rd congressional district narrowly beat his democratic challenger in the Illinois Primary on Tuesday. Lipinski tells the Scott Slocum show, it's important for the democratic party to be inclusive and NOT become the “tea party of the left.” To hear the entireÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
December 31, 1999
In election after election during this period, tea party voters rejected moderate or establishment candidates in Republican primaries in favor of hardcore ... Marie Newman, a progressive running for Illinois's 3rd Congressional District, has argued there is no longer a place in the Democratic Party for Rep.
