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Tea Party champion Rand Paul will campaign alongside Thom Tillis in Raleigh Wednesday morning, trying to shore up a base that could threaten North Carolinas Republican U.S. Senate hopeful.

Entering the final month of his race against Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, Tillis faces lingering resistance from libertarian and tea party conservatives.

Some plan to vote for him reluctantly. Others wont vote for him at all.

There is no way we could even remotely get behind him, said Jane Billello, who chairs the Asheville Tea Party. We would have to abandon and betray everything we believe in. And its not going to happen.

North Carolina could help determine control of the Senate, where Republicans need a net gain of six seats for a majority. Hagan holds a 3.5-point edge over Tillis in Real Clear Politics average of recent polls.

A close race could give groups like the tea party outsized influence.

Its the difference between 49.9 (percent) and 50.1, said Duke University political scientist John Aldrich. Its very likely their decision that tips it one way or the other.

Tillis won 47 percent of the vote in Mays GOP primary. But nearly as many voters cast ballots for his top two conservative challengers. Getting them to vote for Tillis appears to be a struggle.

Many tea party conservatives are disaffected with Tillis.

That stems in part from his refusal to attend several tea party-sponsored primary debates and the perception that hes the establishment candidate who represents politics as usual. Last November, a dozen sign-carrying tea party activists protested a Charlotte fundraiser for Tillis that featured former White House adviser Karl Rove.

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By Perry Bacon Jr.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- Most of the GOP governors elected in blue states in 2009 and 2010 amid the rise of the Tea Party have moved to the political middle as they sought re-election over the last year.

Then theres Scott Walker. The Wisconsin governor turned himself into a conservative hero and liberal pariah three months into his tenure by signing a law that severely curtailed the power of unions for state employees and then surviving a Democratic attempt to recall him over it.

Now, in a state that Obama won in both 2008 and 2012, Walker is running an unabashedly conservative re-election campaign, taking no steps to move to the left on policy and instead bragging of his role as a boogeyman to Democrats both here and nationally.

This is going to be a tough election. Last week we saw two of the national big government union bosses come into this state and say Im their No.1 target, he told the workers at a plant in Hudson, Wisconsin on Monday. (The head of the National Education Association recently called defeating Walker a top priority, while the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees says it has a score to settle with him.)

You know why? We took the power out of their hands.

In a second term, Walker is promising to require people who get food stamp benefits to pass drug tests, an idea that not only is barred by current federal law but is viewed by Democrats as stigmatizing the poor. He wants to expand a state-operated school vouchers program, another issue that sharply divides the two parties in Wisconsin.

The Republican has pledged to continue opposing Obamacare if he is re-elected and refuse hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, even as other GOP governors like New Jerseys Chris Christie and Ohios John Kasich have accepted the money.

These policies that he's implemented are not the policies that you'll hear espoused by, say, Governor Christie or Governor Romney or any of the establishment Republicans. This is conservatism here.

Walker is strongly defending the provision that stripped many collective bargaining rights from public employees and the voter ID law he signed early in his tenure.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the battle for control of the United States Senate, this summers primary contest in Mississippi exposed deep divisions in the Republican Party that still havent been reconciled.

Jeffrey Hess of Mississippi Public Broadcasting has our report.

CHRIS MCDANIEL, (R) Mississippi State Senator: The Republican primary was won very Republican voters.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

JEFFREY HESS: Forty-two-year-old state Senator Chris McDaniel is the energetic young face of Mississippis Tea Party. The Sarah Palin-backed McDaniel came within a few thousand votes of beating six-term incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in a June primary and subsequent run-off by riding a wave of anti-Washington, anti-incumbent anger.

McDaniel claims election fraud helped Cochran win and is challenging the results in court. According to McDaniel, Democrats voted in their own primary and then illegally crossed over and voted in the Republican run-off, which is a violation of state law.

McDaniel blames the states Republican establishment and the Cochran campaign for attempting to stop the Tea Party in its tracks.

CHRIS MCDANIEL: They were willing to sacrifice a friend for power. And they would say and do anything they had to do to do that. And they did. Thats problematic, but not just for me, because when they called me those nasty names, when they called me a racist, which is not true, when they said I was going to cut off funding for historically black colleges and universities, which is not true, when they said I was going to end welfare and suppress voting rights, which is all not true, they were likewise saying it about 187,000 conservatives.

JEFFREY HESS: The contentious primary here in Mississippi was the most high-profile example of the primary battles that have taken place across the country between the Tea Party and establishment wings of the Republican Party. In 2010, the Republicans rode a wave of Tea Party support to retake the House. But many Republicans with ties in Washington believed that the Tea Party cost them seats in the Senate.

And the Senate up for grabs again this year, they were determined not to let that happen again, and they spent millions to make sure of it. But staunch McDaniel and Tea Party supporters arent giving up the fight.

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