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Senator DeMint bucks Republican party, backs conservative in California race
Sen. Jim DeMint endorsed conservative California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R) Tuesday. Read more...
California Senate: The Next NY-23?
realclearpolitics.com — Carly Fiorina's nascent Senate campaign won the public backing Thursday of eight Republican senators, whose personal politics run the gamut on the GOP political spectrum. The early endorsements from the senators could serve as a boon to Fiorina's ... (more) California Senate: The Next NY-23?
Fiorina, DeVore locked up for GOP's Senate nod
thehill.com — Two of California's prominent Republican Senate candidates are already neck and neck in a new poll. The latest numbers, released Sunday by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and Public Opinion Strategies , show both Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore with about 27 ... (more) Fiorina, DeVore locked up for GOP's Senate nod
Fiorina officially announces Senate candidacy
thehill.com — Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina officially has announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate after months of speculation. Fiorina will run as a Republican against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) The ex-Silicon Valley executive's entrance into the ... (more) Fiorina officially announces Senate candidacy
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Commentary: An Interview With Carly Fiorina, Candidate For United States Senate [By Jon Fleischman - Publisher - Flash Report]
The Flash Report Blog and Commentary — ... cancer, which is now in remission and God-willing it is all behind her now.  Finally, she is not running uncontested for the GOP nomination -- already occupying a significant presence in the Republican primary is popular third-term Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been actively campaigning for well over a year now.  Chuck DeVore has an impressive array of endorsements, and a history of party involvement that makes almost anyone else look like an amateur.  Just yesterday DeVore was endorsed by conservative iconic U.S. Senator Jim DeMint and also the Senate Conservative Fund. ...

SSP Daily Digest: 11/4
Swing State Project — ... : The Carlyfornia Dreaming commenced today, as former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina officially  announced her bid for the GOP Senate nomination. In a development that's both DeLightful and DeLovely as the GOP barrels headlong into civil war, though, SC Sen. Jim DeMint endorsed GOP Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in the GOP primary, in his ongoing quest to have a Senate caucus of 30 pure Republicans. ...

CA Senate 2010: Carly Fiorina Is In; DeMint Endores DeVore
MyDD — ... and businessman from Irvine in Orange County, he has been aggressively campaigning for months, positioning himself as the only true nutcase, excuse me, conservative in the race. And is in the NY-23 and down in Florida, the GOP appears headed for a nasty fight. It is failed failed money against a wingnut who once longingly wrote a book about a world war erupting in the Taiwan Straits. Today, uber-conseravative Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina endorsed the uber-nut DeVore. From The Hill: ...

Republicans Prepare To Repeat NY-23 In Kentucky Senate Race
DownWithTyranny! — ... extremists are challenging NRSC candidates in plenty of states besides Kentucky and Florida. Failed corporate hack Carly Fiorina hopes to buy the GOP nod in California but teabaggers have their own kooky fringe candidate, Chuck DeVore, and they have every intention of destroying Fiorina-- a much easier target-- the same way they destroyed Scozzafava. In fact, just as Fiorina officially announced her candidacy this morning, the teabaggers' #1 Senate proponent, secessionist Jim DeMint, endorsed DeVore. Teabaggers are also determined to run vicious-- burn down the house-- ...

Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/4/09
Daily Kos — ... Right-winger Jim DeMint wants to get all "Scozzafavy" in California, backing the insurgent Republican over the establishment candidate in the battle to face U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. ...

Hurtling Toward 2010, 11/5
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... her candidacy for Senate in California; and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) promptly endorsed her conservative primary opponent, Chuck DeVore; conservative Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio ...

Coburn, McCain Endorse Fiorina Senate Bid
James Richardson's Skepticians — ... Today’s announcement by Fiorina, who only formally announced her bid for Senate on Wednesday, comes on the heels of Senator Jim Demint’s endorsement of Fiorina’s Republican primary opponent, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. ...

Coburn, McCain Endorse Fiorina Senate Bid
RedState — ... Today’s announcement by Fiorina, who only formally announced her bid for Senate on Wednesday, comes on the heels of Senator Jim Demint’s endorsement of Fiorina’s Republican primary opponent, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. ...

Jim DeMint's Lonely Battle Against Unemployment Insurance And His Crusade To Further Shrink The GOP Pup Tent
DownWithTyranny! — ... He then rushed from the Senate floor to announce to California Republican voters-- in time to mess up the news cycle of failed corporate hack Carly Fiorina as she announced her bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate-- that he had found a teabagger to support. Recall that it was DeMint who first started the right-wing derailment of Charlie Crist's placid march to the Senate several months ago, when he endorsed a little known right-wing extremist, Marco Rubio. DeMint was also one of the Republicans to destroy the GOP's chance to hold onto the NY-23 House seat by ...

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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she'll run for the U.S. Senate seat held by California incumbent Barbara Boxer.
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