North Carolina. Some conservatives are unhappy with GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, who is likely to draw a primary challenge later this month from retired Raleigh financier Garland Tucker III. (Rep. Mark Walker is unlikely to run.)
Since the birth of the Tea Party movement in 2009, the most publicized political tension was the fight between the Tea Party and the GOP Establishment. But incumbents struggled for other reasons. Richard Lugar (Indiana) lost his primary, and Pat Roberts (Kansas) and Thad Cochran (Mississippi) nearly lost, because they didn’t spend enough time in their states over the years, not because of ideological…
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