Tea Party group pushes back against Rove’s ‘big spending’ super PAC

A leading Tea Party group has launched a new fund to oppose “big spending” candidates from both parties, in a move that comes just days after a push by moderate Republicans against unelectable right-wingers.

The Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund said in its mission statement that it “will not hesitate to oppose Republican or Democrats in contested primaries” blaming both sides in Congress for taking America down the “path to fiscal ruin”.

Launched Friday, the new fundraising entity will be seen as a counterweight to the Karl Rove-backed Super Pac American Crossroads. Only last week, Rove announced a new effort aimed at ploughing “tens of millions of dollars” into the campaigns of Republicans at risk of being out-flanked from the right.

The war chests being set up could lead to well-financed and bitter Republican primaries in next year’s congressional contests. They come as the party struggles to define itself in the aftermath of November’s presidential defeat, with growing talk of an internecine split between moderates and Tea Party-backed members of the Republican Party.

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