House Tea Party Icons Face Re-Election Challenges

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is counting on her campaign's big financial advantage and her conservative-leaning district to win re-election to Congress next month. But three other high-profile tea party icons find themselves in tough races to return to the House.

 

 

 

 

RAMSEY, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is counting on her campaign's big financial advantage and her conservative-leaning district to win re-election to Congress next month. But three other high-profile tea party icons find themselves in tough races to return to the House.

GOP Reps. Allen West of Florida, Steve King of Iowa and Joe Walsh of Illinois are all embroiled in difficult, expensive re-election battles.

All three of them are running in newly redrawn congressional districts that are less friendly than their current ones. They're also facing voters in a year in which the political climate has cooled for tea party politicians since the 2010 groundswell that swept so many of them into office.

The four Republicans are facing Democratic challengers who are casting them as inflexible ideologues.

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