Sentences with phrase «nascent conservative movement»

His campaign doesn't resemble the nascent conservative movement of the 1960s so much as the 1992 third - party presidential bid of Ross Perot or the Pim Fortuyn List in the Netherlands during the early 2000s.

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While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

Those groups, seizing on the then - nascent Tea Party movement, backed Doug Hoffman, an accountant who ran on the Conservative Party line.