GOP Sen. Jim DeMint said his party is on track to become stronger ideologically with O’Donnell’s win over Castle.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who endorsed Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary, said he’s content with the GOP staying in the minority if the party doesn’t stand for any principles.
DeMint’s party argued before O’Donnell’s victory that she could not win a general election in Delaware, and polls suggest Democrat candidate Chris Coons will defeat O’Donnell in November.
But DeMint, the leader of the Senate Conservatives Fund, said the GOP was on track to being a stronger party ideologically with her victory.
“I don’t want the majority back if we don’t believe anything,” DeMint said on Fox News. “So I think if we want the numbers, if we want the majority, then we’re going to have to stand on some principles that the American people believe in.”
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