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[NV] Tea Party Choice Scrambles in Taking On Reid
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 17, 2010 09:36pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: August 17, 2010
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Sharron Angle leaned across a table in her campaign office here, defending her suddenly embattled campaign to defeat Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, under the gaze of a half-dozen advisers and an official videographer packed into the room.
“We always have known that this was going to be a close race,” Ms. Angle said in a rare interview. “Senator Reid has never just given up the fight, you know? He has always been a tough opponent.”
But after a year in which Mr. Reid has been at the top of every list of endangered Democrats — there is no one Republicans would like more to unseat — Mr. Reid sees a lifeline in Ms. Angle, a former state assemblywoman who, with the backing of the Tea Party, overcame a field of establishment Republicans to win the party’s nomination.
Since Ms. Angle won, her campaign has been rocked by a series of politically intemperate remarks and awkward efforts to retreat from hard-line positions she has embraced in the past, like phasing out Social Security. There have also been a staff shake-up and run-ins with Nevada journalists, including one in which a television reporter chased her through a parking lot trying to get her to answer a question.
Republicans in this state are concerned that what had once seemed a relatively easily victory is suddenly in doubt, with signs that Ms. Angle’s campaign is scrambling to regroup. |
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