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After simmering throughout the 2014 primaries and general election, the feud between tea party and establishment Republicans is set to boil over in the next two years as both factions turn up the heat in the battle to be kingmakers for the GOP presidential nominee.

The fight among the potential candidates themselves is already well underway, with conservative senators positioning themselves as the insurgents and several current and former governors as the standard-bearers for the establishment including potentially another member of the Bush family, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Indeed, in states like New Hampshire, which holds the first-in-the-nation primary, the race has been going on for three months, said former Gov. John H. Sununu, who played a major role in 2012 nominee Mitt Romneys campaign.

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I have been having people knock on the door and come have coffee and want to know what is going on and what they should do, Mr. Sununu said. So if they are smart enough to ask the right questions, they get a lot of information. If they dont ask the right questions, they dont get a lot of information.

Voters have been spared much of the internal GOP feuding, as both sides have tried to paper over differences in recent months, joining together in the shared goal of flipping control of the Senate and holding onto key governorships.

But once the postscript on the 2014 elections is written, it will start to simmer again, said Ford OConnell, a GOP strategist. And by the time we reach the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, I expect it to be a driving force in who Republicans nominate as the partys eventual standard-bearer.

More than a dozen possible GOP presidential contenders have made nearly 60 visits to Iowa and more than 40 to New Hampshire, the first two states in the 2016 presidential sweepstakes, according to DemocracyInAction.

The 2016 hopefuls have hunted pheasant, headlined GOP fundraisers and keynoted gatherings of social conservatives.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Pauls super PAC called RAND PAC also has hired full-time staffers in Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has flexed his fundraising muscle as the head of the Republicans Governors Association a post that gave him a built-in excuse to drop into battleground states.

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Tea party, establishment Republicans set for showdown over 2016 nominee

Mississippi is the Senate race in whichhope springs eternal -- in an almost literal sense of "eternal."

You mightrecall a lot of attention paid to the Republican Senate primary there earlier this year. Incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R) came in a very close second in the initial round of primary voting, only to triumph by a decent margin in the runoff later that month. That result prompted Cochran's opponent, state Sen. Chris McDaniel to begin a long, weird, futile effort to have himself declared the actual victor.

McDaniel enjoyed enormous support from staunch conservatives and the tea party in the state, many of whom backed him as he continued to say he would fight Cochran's nomination. And on Tuesday, Election Day itself, the board of directors of the South Mississippi Tea Party finally offered an endorsement in the general election race.

It backed Democrat Travis Childers.

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which received the press release,quotes from it liberally (so to speak). The leadership of the state Republican Party's "campaigning FOR big government, excessive spending and cooperation with the Obama Regime is a violation of the Republican platform," it reads in part. Therefore it wants to elect the Democrat, who had the best (tiny) chance of beating Cochran. (Childers lost.) But, it continues, "[i]f you cannot bring yourself to vote for the Democrat then may we suggest you vote for Sean O'Hara (Reform Party candidate)." So, options.

McDaniel, meanwhile, was continuing to press his always-doomed case in the courts as recently as last Friday. The irony, for those who haven't been tracking this closely, is that a key component of that complaint was the charge that Democrats who backed Cochran in the runoff (likely a key aspect of his win) violated a state law mandating that they be committed to backing the winner of the primary in November. An argument could be made that the South Mississippi Tea Party, by backing McDaniel and then switching to Childers, is equally guilty.

We suspect Cochran will let it slide.

Philip Bump writes about politics for The Fix. He previously wrote for The Wire, the news blog of The Atlantic magazine. He has contributed to The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Daily, and the Huffington Post. Philip is based in New York City.

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