Danny Tarkanian, the Republican running against embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, says that Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts Tuesday is making it much easier for other Senate challengers like him to raise money.
“I had a good trip to New York, where I met with six contributors who all helped Brown and are now looking to help elsewhere,” Tarkanian told The Examiner. “I noticed a lot more enthusiasm.”
Campaigning on a platform of limited government, no pork barrel spending and no bailouts, Tarkanian says ten recent polls have him beating Reid beyond the margin of error. But “I made my official announcement the last day in August, before the polls,” he noted. “I just felt he was not representing the State of Nevada and that I could beat him.”
Brown’s surge in Massachusetts and a large Tea Party movement in Nevada – recent meetings in Reno and Las Vegas were standing room only – makes him confident he can bump off the top Democrat in the Senate – if he makes it through a tough primary on June 8.
“I tell voters I’m helping Ronald Reagan win his last campaign,” a reference to Reagan’s attempt to keep the liberal Reid from being elected in 1986 to replace retiring two-term incumbent Republican and Reagan confidant Paul Laxalt.
Former state GOP chairwoman Sue Lowden and former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle are also in the race for the GOP nomination against Reid. Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, R, may enter the race as well.
