The surprise primary defeat of Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, by Tea Party challenger Brad Wenstrup, is sending a strong signal to the GOP that the fiscally conservative group is still in charge.
Ron Paul’s top strategists are confused and frustrated that the wild enthusiasm they see at their campaign rallies and events is not translating into votes.
Tonight will be the last scheduled debate for candidates in North Dakota’s top races prior to the state nominating conventions in March.
When your candidate has a really rotten debate, the temptation is great to create a distraction. However, if the distraction is harebrained and unflattering to your candidate, you wind up making things worse.
The Maine Republican Party drew criticism over the weekend for declaring Mitt Romney the statewide winner without results from Washington County, where voters had planned to meet on the same day as the statewide announcement — Feb. 11 — but canceled the night before based on reports of a potential winter storm.
Rep. Allen West addresses the GOP and expresses his views on Obama, Reid and Pelosi.
By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Columbia, S.C.— Karen Martin was one of the original tea partyers in a state that helped birth the movement. One of her biggest achievements was helping Nikki Haley beat the old-boy network to become governor. So when Haley threw her support behind Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, [...]
The harshest attack against Mitt Romney to yet hit the South Carolina airwaves is coming not from his GOP rivals, but from comedian Stephen Colbert , whose Super PAC is up with a 60-second spot accusing Romney of being a “serial killer.”
Whatever the real reason for the timing, it’s interesting that President Obama decided that this week was the moment–when consensus is gelling that Mitt Romney is the all-but-inevitable GOP nominee–to announce a very Romney-esque cost-cutting plan.
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — A month before Colorado’s Republican presidential caucuses, uncertainty about which candidates will be left in the race is only one big question. The other unknown: What role will tea party groups play?
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