Howard Dean says Republicans "Aren #39;t American."
At a fundraiser for Congressional candidate Andrew Romanoff, former Democrat Party Chairman, Howard Dean, shared his thoughts on Republicans. This was filmed May13, 2014.
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Republicans Facing Off For Chance To Face Dems
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell looked to vanquish a tea party challenger in Kentucky, and nearly a dozen candidates vied Tuesday night for spots on the Georgia ballot for fall elections...
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Republicans are competing Tuesday for prize nominations in several races considered vital to the party's hopes of retaking the Senate in November, as voters cast their ballots in primaries across six states.
Though primary voters are heading to the polls for a host of Republican and Democratic contests -- including Senate, House and gubernatorial races -- the most closely watched appears to be Georgia, where a whopping seven candidates are running for the GOP Senate nod.
The winner of that race is expected to take on Democratic front-runner Michelle Nunn in the fall.She is the daughter of Sam Nunn, a Democrat who represented Georgia in the Senate from 1972-1997.
Meanwhile, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell beat Tea Party-aligned Matt Bevin in his Kentucky primary contest. But the real competition for him is likely to come in November, when he will face Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.
McConnell is running not only to defend his seat, but possibly to grab the title of majority leader next year.
The Georgia and Kentucky Senate races represent Democrats' best, and perhaps only, shots at picking up Republican-held Senate seats. It is considered critical that Republicans hold these seats, in order to have a chance at picking up the six seats needed to gain the majority.
Hypothetical match-ups already show McConnell and Grimes locked in a tight competition in November.
In Georgia, Republicans are looking to pick a strong nominee who can defend the seat being left by retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
Polls suggest former Secretary of State Karen Handel, Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue are battling for the top two posts. Reps. Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey are also running.
A July 22 runoff of the top two candidates is likely, given the difficulty any candidate would face in garnering the 50 percent necessary to avoid one.
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Republicans pick candidates to defend turf in key Senate battlegrounds- Republican hopes rise on Georgia race- Can in ...
Washington: Mainstream US Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defeated Tea Party challengers in key primaries on Tuesday, setting the stage for their bid to regain full control of Congress in November.
Republicans lead the House of Representatives and are determined to wrest the Senate from President Barack Obama's Democrats in this year's mid-term elections.
Voters in six states, from Georgia in the US southeast to the Pacific northwest Oregon, cast ballots on what became known as the "Super Tuesday" of the 2014 campaign. But most eyes were on Kentucky, a key battleground between traditional Republicans and members of the party's more conservative, populist "Tea Party" wing.
The anti-establishment fervor sweeping much of the country seems not to have taken as strong a hold in Kentucky, and well-funded veteran incumbent McConnell, 72, trounced Tea Party backed challenger Matt Bevin in one of the most expensive - and closely watched - primaries of 2014.
If he is reelected in November, and if Republicans gain a net six seats in the 100-seat chamber to regain control, McConnell would lead the Senate majority and be positioned to block Obama's legislative efforts in his last two years in the White House.
"Send me back to Washington and Kentucky will always have a champion in the Capitol," McConnell told cheering supporters in his victory speech.
But he faces perhaps the most formidable election challenge of his 30-year Senate career in Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who won her party's primary and immediately set her sites on ousting McConnell.
"Mitch McConnell would have you believe that President Obama is on Kentucky's 2014 election ballot," Grimes told supporters, referring to McConnell warning voters that Grimes would merely be a back-bencher for a president pushing his unpopular health care law and other liberal mandates.
"Senator McConnell, this race is between you and me," the 35-year-old Grimes said. "That's the name that appears on the ballot."
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Republicans Face Fown Tea Party Rests in US Primaries
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Washington (CNN) -- Establishment Republicans, backed by business-friendly outside groups, launched a counter-offensive this year against conservative Senate challengers after two election cycles of hard-right candidates winning GOP primaries but losing in November.
Republicans need to flip six seats this year to win back the majority and don't want the same scenario to play out again. The tea party's scorecard this year is far different than in 2010 and 2012, when it knocked off several establishment-backed candidates.
Short-lived tea party victories
It's too early to say if the party's over, but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month, "it's already clear that the pragmatist conservatives have stopped the anti-establishment's electoral momentum."
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March 4
Firebrand Republican Rep. Steve Stockman launched a last-minute bid against Texas Sen. John Cornyn, but he never seriously challenged the incumbent. Cornyn won by more than 40 points.
May 6
North Carolina state House Speaker Thom Tillis won big against his top two conservative opponents, winning enough of the vote in the primary to avoid a costly runoff that would have delayed his general election face-off against Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, one of the nation's most vulnerable incumbents.
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