The stunning Texas victory of Ted Cruz, a young Tea Party-backed Republican over an establishment candidate vying for a Senate seat, has already so emboldened the insurgent conservative movement that activists are warning Mitt Romney he had better get on board.
"These guys [newly elected Tea Party candidates]" are going to force
Romney to the right," said Andrea Shell, a spokeswoman for Tea Party
group Freedom Works. "That is our entire mission."
Cruz won the Texas Republican primary Tuesday night. In Texas, winning
the Republican nomination is a virtual lock on a Senate election.
His victory is the latest in a string of Tea Party
candidates to tap into anti-establishment frustration within the
Republican Party and overcome the steep odds and deep pockets of more
mainstream candidates.
Riding a wave of recent successes in the House and now also the Senate,
Tea Party groups are eyeing the possible control of both chambers, a
prospect, they say, would force Romney, were he to win the presidential
election in November, "to move to the right."...............................
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