Former Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle has made her first endorsement of the 2012 campaign season, throwing her support behind Richard Mourdock, who is mounting a primary challenge to Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana. (more)
Sharron Angle, the former Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Nevada with robust Tea Party support, slammed Arizona Sen. John McCain for his comments criticizing her and other Tea Partiers during the debt ceiling debate. (more)
Sharron Angle dropped out of a special election to fill an open congressional seat in Nevada Wednesday. (more)
A judge in Nevada ruled on Thursday that the state parties will decide the candidates for the special election, overruling the interpretation of the rules announced by the state’s secretary of state. (more)
The Nevada Republican Party today filed suit against Nevada’s secretary of state over the rules for the special election to fill the now vacant congressional seat in the state’s second district. The suit seeks to prevent Secretary of State Ross Miller from placing any candidate on the ballot who has not been nominated by his or her party. Miller announced earlier this week that the election would be a ‘free-for-all’ in which any candidate who wished to run need only file a petition with Miller’s office. (more)
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has targeted Sept. 13 for a special election for Nevada’s Congressional District 2, a House seat soon to be vacated by Rep. Dean Heller. (more)
On Tuesday, Sharron Angle released a statement suggesting that she would not run in a special election to fill the seat that is about to vacated by Dean Heller, who has been appointed by Gov. Sandoval to fill the Senate seat vacated by John Ensign. But, in a Friday fundraising email, Angle seems to have changed her mind, telling supporters that she is running. (more)
Former Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle may run for Congress as an independent, the Las Vegas Journal-Review reports. (more)
Tea Party Express, the national organization that stepped into Nevada politics last year when it supported Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, is hoping that it will be able to exert its influence in the aftermath of Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign’s resignation. (more)
At a ‘Tax Day Protest’ this week attendees expecting the usual perfunctory and dispassionate “God Bless the USA” instead were treated to Sharron Angle’s unprecedented yet impressive showmanship. Where most politicians would leave the singing to the professionals Angle instead grabbed the microphone, and was all smiles as she sung a surprisingly good rendition of the classic song. (more)
Kirk Lippold, the former commander of the USS Cole, announced Thursday morning that he would run for the Nevada congressional seat that Dean Heller is vacating. Lippold commanded the USS Cole when it was attacked and bombed by Al Qaeda in 2000 while at port in Yemen. The former naval commander will challenge Sharron Angle, and possibly others, in the Republican primary. In his first interview as a newly minted candidate, Lippold talked to The Daily Caller about where he stands on the issues, his naval record, and why he thinks voters will choose him over Angle, who he calls a “career politician” who lacks the “new leadership and new vision” that he would bring to the table. (more)
Sharron Angle announced Wednesday that she will again try for elected office and will run for Congress to represent Nevada’s 2nd District. The seat is currently held by Republican Dean Heller, who has announced that he will make a bid for retiring Senator John Ensign’s seat. (more)
Nevada Republican Rep. Dean Heller announced Tuesday that he is running for the Senate seat currently held by retiring Republican Sen. John Ensign. (more)
In 2010, Republicans across America experienced a renewed sense of victory as the GOP seized elected offices on the local and state levels and regained control of the U.S. House, unseating Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as Speaker and ending the unilateral Democratic dominance in Washington of the last two years. (more)
A survivor of Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson blamed Fox’s Glenn Beck, former Alaska gov. Sarah Palin, and former senatorial candidate Sharron Angle for the actions of alleged schizophrenic Jared Loughner. (more)
Oh, boy. This was quite a week for Keith Olbermann. There’s nothing like a senseless act of violence to bring out the worst in pundits of all stripes, and Olbermann not only isn’t an exception, he’s the rule. (more)
We’ve heard the conspiracies. They’re rampant all over the Internet that President Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya or Indonesia. Though they have been roundly dismissed by many on the left and the right, left-leaning outlets still use the conspiracy theory to marginalize conservatives. (more)
UPDATE (5:30pm): The Center for Public Integrity responds to inquires made by TheDC. (more)
Former Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle condemned Tucson shooter Jared Loughner and expressed concern about the politicized placement of blame in a statement her office released Wednesday. (more)
January 8 marked a terrible tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. Twenty-two-year-old Jared Loughner, whose incoherent, rambling YouTube clips indicate serious psychological problems, opened fire at a “Congress on Your Corner” event, killing six and injuring fourteen. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among those seriously injured. (more)
