McConnell could face a primary challenge from the Tea Party in 2014 so that may color his stated posture.
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Mr Straus handily won his own primary challenge, but the tea-party want him binned as Speaker when the legislature reconvenes next year.
Mike Lee, a corporate lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk for Justice Sam Alito, nailed down the Republican primary with help from the Tea Party.
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After helping Joe Miller beat Lisa Murkowski, the incumbent, in Alaska's Republican primary last month, the Tea Party Express announced that it would match what it had spent in Alaska in Delaware.
Calabria remains the epicenter of production, and the cosmetics and tea industries are the primary customers.
That effort will lead to a number of Tea Party-backed primary challenges in 2014, which could oust some pledge-breaking incumbents and put a safe seat into play.
The Republican presidential campaign has included a conservative shift to appeal to tea party voters in the primary and caucus season.
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He lost the state's Senate primary to Christine O'Donnell, a Tea Partier with little backing from big businesses.
Polls indicated he would lose heavily in a Republican primary election to Marco Rubio, who is backed by tea partyers.
Unlike Tea Partiers, politics is not seen as the primary means to change for First Globals.
His tea-powered victory in Florida's Republican Senate primary over the well-funded and popular sitting governor, Charlie Crist, was one of the biggest upsets of the mid-term elections in 2010.
The island's primary schools have also been involved in anniversary celebrations, with assemblies, a tea dance and poetry, poster and art competitions.
Cruz is a former member of the Harvard Law Review who donned the tea party mantle to defeat a powerful sitting lieutenant governor in a primary.
The Tea Party triumph in Delaware is one of the most significant results of the entire primary season, says the BBC's Steve Kingstone in Washington.
And in the New York governor's race Carl Paladino, a political novice backed by tea-partiers, trounced Rick Lazio by two-to-one in the Republican primary.
Gossar, who reached out to the Tea Party movement for support and was endorsed by Sarah Palin, had defeated an establishment Republican during the primary.
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