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Kentucky Senate candidate Matt Bevin (R). (AP Photo: Kevin Goldy/The Independent)

A trio of new polls Monday from NBC News and Marist College confirm an emerging trend of the 2014 primary season: the Republican establishment has the upper hand over the tea party.

House Speaker Thom Tillis's (R) outright win in the North Carolina Senate primary last week -- he avoided a primary runoff against tea party opposition -- was seen as a step in the right direction for a GOP establishment that has struggled mightily to figure out how to beat back such primary challenges.

The new polls confirm that things continue to be headed in the GOP's direction.

In Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is having very little trouble with his challenger, businessman Matt Bevin. He leads Bevin 57 percent to 25 percent with just one week left until primary day (May 20).

The establishment also appears primed for a pretty significant win in another state holding its primary that same day: Georgia.

Tea party-aligned Reps. Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun lag behind, tied for fourth place, in the open primary to succeed retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). Businessman David Perdue leads at 23 percent, followed by Rep. Jack Kingston at 18 percent and former secretary of state Karen Handel at 14 percent. Gingrey and Broun are at 11 percent and are also the second choices of relatively few voters. The national GOP favors Perdue, Kingston and Handel.

In each race, the polls suggest the tea party is basically out of contention heading into the final week. That's especially huge for the GOP establishment, because these are arguably the two races where it had the most to lose come November.

In Kentucky, Bevin began his race as a cause celebre for the tea party in a race that is both hugely symbolic for the tea party and hugely important in the 2014 campaign. Aloss or a close call for the Republican leader of the Senate would be seen as a significant rebuke of his leadership and a bad omen for his chances in the general election, where he's locked in a virtual tie with Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D).

Georgia, meanwhile, loomed as the most apparent potential disaster for Republicans if they got the wrong candidate. National GOP strategists worried pretty openly from the beginning that Broun -- or, to a lesser extent, Gingrey -- would imperil their chances of holding a seat in a state that still leans clearly red and where Democrats have a solid recruit in Michelle Nunn.

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April 25, 2014: Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse, left; former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz; Sharon Lee; Utah Sen. Mike Lee, stand together on the platform in North Platte, Neb., at a rally for Sasse.AP

Tea Party Republicans looking to get their groove back are eyeing Tuesday's Republican Senate primary race in Nebraska, where leading conservative groups and figures are closing ranks behind a university president's candidacy.

The election is closely watched, as the Tea Party movement and its allies have struggled to execute the kind of electoral coups that ousted GOP incumbents tagged as too moderate in 2010 and 2012. Last week in North Carolina, the Tea Party-aligned candidate lost to state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the Senate GOP primary there.

But Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse, president of Midland University, appears to have a lead in the polls as he enters Tuesday's contest for the open seat left by retiring Republican Sen. Mike Johanns. He's facing off against former state treasurer Shane Osborn, as well as Sid Dinsdale, an Omaha businessman who recently loaned his campaign $1 million and may be picking up steam in the race.

Sasse is campaigning as an anti-regulation, anti-ObamaCare, pro-gun rights "outsider."

"I think we need to elect more people who want to make Washington less important," he recently told the Fremont Tribune.

Sasse enjoys support from the Club for Growth, Tea Party Patriots and other major conservative organizations, as well as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, and Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee, who have recently joined him on the campaign trail.

But Osborn has fought back against Sasse's more-conservative-than-thou message, running a new ad accusing his rival of supporting the 2010 federal health care law.

Sasse has made his opposition to the Affordable Care Act the centerpiece of his campaign. His photo on the cover of the conservative National Review in January was featured above the headline: "Obamacare's Nebraska Nemesis."

However, Sasse advised former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt's firm as the group reached out to businesses and organizations in 2010 to explain and implement the new law.

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