OMG yes!
Sharron Angle, who made a famously unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 2010, is running for the seat again.
Angle filed late Friday in Carson City as a Republican candidate for the open seat of outgoing U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Angle, a tea party darling, had faced Reid in 2010 after winning the GOP primaries and lost to him. This time around, the GOP’s most prominent candidate is U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., who is also running.
Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, a former Nevada attorney general, is also running for the seat with Reid’s backing.
In all, 18 candidates are running for the Senate seat, one of a handful nationwide that the GOP hopes to gain in the election.
And this guy probably isn’t happy to hear about it:
Angle's presence in a Republican primary is also a significant obstacle for Rep. Joe Heck, the establishment favorite who was expected to win the party's Senate nomination as an effectively unchallenged candidate.
Now, instead of preparing for a tough open-seat general election, the congressman from suburban Las Vegas must spend the next three months defending his conservative credentials ahead of the state's June 14 primary.
Heck's fundraising, institutional support, and position as a congressman mean that he likely remains a strong favorite. But for a lawmaker who has made a career of placating both conservative activists and Hispanic voters on sensitive issues, especially on immigration, tacking right in a primary could cost him dearly in the fall.
Nevada is widely considered the Republican Party's best opportunity to pick up a Democratic-controlled Senate seat this year, and Heck -- a doctor and brigadier general in the Army Reserve -- is arguably the Senate GOP's best recruit of the cycle. He won his swing-district House seat in suburban Las Vegas in 2010, and ably defended it against stiff Democratic challenges since.
The Democratic Party is expected to nominate Catherine Cortez Masto for the Senate race, a former Nevada attorney general who is trying to become the country's first Latina senator.
Angle’s entrance into the race could help Cortez Masto have an easier time winning the general election if she pushes Heck more to the right. We shall see. Until then,
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