Politics

Tea Party Holds Ground in GOP Primaries

Unscalped

Kansas’s incumbent GOP senator held off a challenge from Obama’s conservative second cousin Tuesday, and a Michigan libertarian firebrand dispatched his establishment-backed opponent.

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The Tea Party may not be knocking off incumbents, but it doesn’t appear to be losing any ground within the GOP.

So while conservatives weren’t able to claim any more establishment scalps this 2014 primary cycle to place on the mantelpiece next to Eric

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