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Sharron Angle (Republican Party) ran for election to the Nevada State Senate to represent District 15. She lost in the Republican primary on June 11, 2024.

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Tea Party movement finds a new champion in Trump-

Tea Party stalwarts who have seen their movement fizzle are finding a new champion in President Trump and see his second administration as a culmination and validation of their efforts.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who gave his first political speech at a Tea Party rally in Oshkosh, Wis., in 2009 as the movement was picking up steam, said he saw parallels when attending Trump rallies in recent years in terms of enthusiasm and the types of supporters it attracted.

“The Tea Party sort of went dormant or atrophied after 2014, ‘15, ‘16,” Johnson said in an interview. “Until Trump came on the scene, and he reignited it in a different form.”

Guest Essay- There's A Price for Promising What Isn't Possible in Congress-

In 2010, I was working for John Boehner, then the House minority leader, when the Tea Party movement rocked American politics. We rode its energy to a blockbuster midterm result, winning the House by flipping 63 seats. But once we were in charge, the demands to always be fighting harder made governing extraordinarily difficult.

Over the next eight years, most of which I spent serving in the speaker’s office, first for Mr. Boehner, then for Paul Ryan, we grappled with the limits of our power in a divided government. Too often, for the base and our members, the achievable was unacceptable and the acceptable was unachievable. Fighting became more important than winning.

As a result, I have sat through more than a couple of government shutdowns. Mr. Schumer is right that a shutdown was not a winning play for Democrats. It never is for the party that puts one into motion. In this case, it would have been an incredible political gift to Mr. Trump, who would love to change the subject from the market free fall and his sagging approval rating.