BOWLING GREEN, Ky.—Tea-party leaders, cheering as some of their movement’s most prominent figures won U.S. Senate seats in Kentucky and Florida, said Tuesday’s elections were only the beginning of their quest to transform government.
“Things look good for tonight,” said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella group that says it has 2,800 local affiliates around the country. “No one in this movement is stopping today. This is not an endgame. This is just a beginning.”
Tea-party victors included Republican Rand Paul, who claimed the Senate seat in Kentucky, and the GOP’s Marco Rubio, who defeated former Gov. Charlie Christ and Rep. Kendrick Meek in Florida’s three-way race for Senate.
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