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Nebraska #39;s tea party test
POLITICO #39;s Alex Burns and Anna Palmer preview Nebraska #39;s Senate primary between #39;tea party #39; and #39;establishment #39; candidates Ben Sasse and Shane Osborn on a new Driving the Day. Video produced...
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In this March 12, 2014 photo Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse laughs on the campaign trail in Elmwood, Neb. AP Photo/Nati Harnik
The victory notched by tea party Republicans in the Nebraska Senate race was modest, but they'll take it in a season that has yielded few bright spots so far.
Ben Sasse won the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb. Sasse was the closest thing to a tea party candidate in the three-man race, largely because he feuded last fall with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the epitome of establishment Republicanism.
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Sasse, 42, had "visiting scholar status" at the Brookings Institution, the venerated left-of-center think tank near the White House.
Several factors make the Nebraska results rather weak tea for tea party celebrations. Sasse's conservative credentials don't differ greatly from his opponents', especially Shane Osborn. Osborn had the conservative group FreedomWorks' endorsement before it was switched to Sasse.
And Nebraska is so strongly Republican that party leaders felt confident that any GOP nominee will defeat the Democratic candidate, Omaha lawyer Dave Domina, and then vote the party line in Washington.
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Tea party pulls out a modest victory in Nebraska
The Tea Party scored a victory in Nebraskas Republican U.S. Senate primary, a win that groups tied to the limited-government movement are banking will boost momentum heading into the heart of the 2014 nomination calendar.
Ben Sasse, last nights winner, was backed by such Tea Party leaders as U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. National groups aligned with the movement also endorsed him in the race to fill the seat of retiring Senator Mike Johanns, a Republican.
Nebraskas primary, as well as one held yesterday in West Virginia, will be followed by others on May 20 and June 3 that will draw more national attention and carry greater consequence.
Those contests in Kentucky, Idaho, Georgia and Mississippi will reveal how much of a threat Tea Party candidates pose to traditional Republicans trying to win control of the U.S. Senate in Novembers election.
The partys national leaders are seeking to avoid the selection of untested, Tea Party-aligned candidates who could hurt their chances to win the chamber, as happened in the 2010 and 2012 elections. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to oust the Democratic majority in the Senate.
In 2012, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, a six-term Republican, lost in a primary to a Tea Party-backed candidate, who was then defeated in the general election by Democrat Joe Donnelly. Two years earlier, then-U.S. Representative Mike Castle of Delaware was beaten in a Republican Senate primary by Christine ODonnell, a Tea Party favorite who during the general election campaign was forced to deny she was a witch. She lost to a Democrat.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington rates Nebraska as solid Republican in this years election, so Sasse is likely to prevail in November. Lawyer Dave Domina, 63, won the Democratic primary for the seat in a state where President Barack Obama took just 38 percent of the 2012 vote.
Sasse, 42, a former assistant secretary of health and human services in George W. Bushs administration who now serves as president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska, is younger than all 45 current Senate Republicans. He represented one of the best opportunities for the Tea Party to claim a win in a contested Senate primary this year.
Republican incumbents have had plenty of intraparty challengers this year, although most of the Tea Party-aligned candidates in those races have failed to spark the kind of electoral excitement their predecessors did in 2010 and 2012.
Jenny Beth Martin, the national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, a group based in the Atlanta area, pointed to other senators tied to the movement such as Cruz and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky as she celebrated Sasses win.
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Tea Party Hangs On With Sasse Nebraska Senate Primary Win
The tea party scored a victory over the Republican establishment Tuesday, with Nebraska voters choosing conservative Ben Sasse as the party's U.S. Senate nominee.
As is happening in Republican primaries across the country, however, the difference between tea party and establishment has blurred.
The tea party-aligned Sasse, the Harvard-educated president of Midland University, is aformer George W. Bush administration official and corporate consultant. The youthful dad of threeswept several other candidates after an outpouring of tea party support that included campaign stops by Sarah Palin and hard-line GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
The Nebraska seat came open with the retirement of Republican Sen. Mike Johanns and is expected to remain in GOP hands, all but ensuring that Sasse will become the state's junior senator.
In Washington, Senate Republican campaign Chairman Jerry Moranwelcomed Sasse's win, emphasizinghis recordas "problem solver," rather than as ahard-right conservative.
Shane Osborn, a former Navy pilot who became Nebraska's state treasurer, had been a conservative favorite. But he was sidelinedas tea party groups coalesced around Sasse. Also losing was Sid Dinsdale, a third-generation banker endorsed by the Omaha World Herald as the candidate most Nebraskans would be "comfortable with."
Outside groups poured $3 million into the Nebraska race, most of it to prop up Sasse and oppose the other two main candidates as Republicans battled Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
The GOP has a good chance of winning the six seats needed to wrest control of the Senate from Democrats this November,but first they must pick their candidates amid the continued party divide.
A primary was also held Tuesday in West Virginia, where Shelley Moore Capito, a seven-term Republican congresswoman, easily won the GOP Senate nomination. She is favored in November against Democrat Natalie Tennant, the secretary of state.
The West Virginia seat came open with the retirement of longtime Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat. But the Mountain State has drifted away from Democrats since Rockefeller's election 30 years ago; it is expected to tiltto the GOP in November.
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