Tea Party group: Bachmann needs to drop out

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., rose with the Tea Party movement to national prominence, but now the leadership of a Tea Party organization that operates around the country is calling on Bachmann to end her presidential campaign.

Ned Ryun, president of American Majority (a Tea Party group that operates around the country) wrote on the group’s blog that “Bachmann’s floundering can damage [the] Tea Party.” Ryun said that “it is time for Michele Bachmann to go,” and he criticized her for “sticking to thin talking points and hanging on for dear life.”