Nevada Republicans have chosen tea party favorite Sharron Angle to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November.
Her win in the GOP primary Tuesday marks the start of a showdown between one of the most powerful —and unpopular — incumbents in America and a conservative renegade who wants to turn Washington on end.
Nevada Democrats handed Reid the party’s nomination Tuesday in his bid for a fifth term.
Angle is a former school teacher and legislator. She grabbed the nomination after a brutal primary in which her rivals depicted her as too extreme to appeal to independents who often cast the decisive votes in centrist Nevada.
She benefited when one-time front-runner Sue Lowden was widely mocked for suggesting consumers use chickens to barter with doctors.