Sharron Angle win GOP nomination for Senate in Nevada!

The AP just called it! Sharron Angle wins the GOP nomination for Senate in Nevada! She will go up against (AND BEAT) dingy Harry Reid in November! According to Fox News, with 59 of precincts reporting, Angle won 39 percent of the vote. Her Republican challengers, former state lawmaker Sue Lowden and real estate owner Danny Tarkanian, secured 28 and 23 percent of the vote, respectively.

“We have completed the first step to taking back our U.S. senate seat,” Angle told supported, stressing the word “our.” “We need to say to Harry Reid, you have failed and you are fired.”

The three Republican candidates had competed for backing of the anti-incumbent Tea Party movement to give their candidacies a boost in Nevada, where Reid’s approval rating has plummeted to 35 percent, according to a recent poll.

The Tea Party Express, one of the most visible factions of the grassroots conservative movement, officially endorsed Angle on April 15. The group, sponsored by the California-based Our Country Deserves Better PAC, has so far spent $550,000 promoting Angle’s candidacy — catapulting her approval rating from a mere 5 percent in early April to double digits.

“Sharron Angle earned our endorsement because she embodies the tea party message of financial sanity and empowering small and local businesses to thrive,” Levi Russell, communications director for the Tea Party Express, told FoxNews.com. “We believe there is no question that the people of Nevada and of the entire nation will rally behind her and help send Harry back home to Searchlight.”

Angle, known as a conservative renegade in Carson City, wants to phase out Social Security for younger workers, dissolve the Education Department
and repeal the 16th Amendment that established the federal income tax.

“I am the Tea Party,” she says.

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June 8, 2010 · Filed Under 2010 Elections


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  • jesse

    teabaggers make me sick! All of these acusations! What makes republicans any better than anyone else? Both parties are worthless, since all they do is bicker with each other. I believe we need a third party in the mix to break the monotony.