Sentences with phrase «national tea party movement»

The upstate New York House district in which a three - way special election helped ignite the national tea party movement last year is headed for another contentious race in November.

Voters will choose between an established Republican, former Representative Rick Lazio, and Carl Paladino, a Buffalo businessman who is riding voter anger as a member of the national Tea Party movement.

National Tea Party movement co-founder and leader Michael Johns endorsed Trump immediately following Trump's June 2015 announcement of his candidacy and defended Trump throughout the contentious Republican primary.

He's also a leader in the national Tea Party movement.

Not exact matches

Modern social movements often fizzle after their moment in the national news (Occupy Wall Street and to a lesser extent the Tea Party come to mind).

Moreover, as Jay Nordlinger at National Review admits, the term «teabagger» was introduced to the political lexicon by Tea Party movement leaders:

Astorino repeated throughout the 45 - minute question - and - answer session with reporters that «Stop Common Core» was a grassroots movement fueled by teachers and parents who are dissatisfied with the standards, dismissing any connection to the conservative and tea party opposition on the national level.

[43][44] Scozzafava also drew strong opposition from the Tea Party movement, with national Tea Party leader Michael Johns saying that his opposition to Scozzafava «was the first time in my 25 - year political and policy career that I ever opposed a Republican candidate.»

Saying the conservative grassroots movement is «now the most potent force in Republican politics» and pointing out Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, and Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, are both members of the new House Tea Party Caucus, DNC chairman Tim Kaine said «the Republican Party agenda has become the Tea Party agenda and vice versa.»

Former senator Dan Coats triumphed in Indiana's Republican Senate primary on Tuesday night, beating out two candidates who had sought to upend the longtime legislator by tapping into the energy of the national «tea party» movement.

On Tuesday, after he announced the petition campaign, Astorino rejected the premise that his opposition to the Common Core was related to a national movement of Conservatives and Tea Party leaders against the standards.

Minnick's announcement comes a day after the Tea Party Express was expelled from The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that seeks to represent the Tea Party political movement around the country.

If at present American racial equality is fitfully advancing, race relations remain marred by retrograde episodes like the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and movements like the Tea Party, which signal a heavy national residue of racism.

The National Journal is reporting that the Tea Party movement is being gently shunned by leading Republican lawmakers (perhaps influenced by a CNN poll showing it is now viewed as unfavorably as the two established political parties; quite an achievement).

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)