Rising Anti-Compromise Republicans Set to Reshape Senate
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Outcomes in the Indiana, Texas and Nebraska Republican primaries are raising the odds that South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will move closer to remaking the ranks of U.S. Senate Republicans in the image of the anti-tax Tea Party-dominated House caucus.
Texas Republican Ted Cruz, who was backed by the Tea Party movement, this week forced Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst into a July runoff for an open Senate seat. On May 8, Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock toppled incumbent Senator Richard Lugar, who was criticized in the Republican primary for compromising with Democrats.