sharron angle, who again as this tea party candidate came out of nowhere. the republican establishment didn t want her to be the nominee. tea party is pouring a lot of money into nevada. harry reid says he will spend $25 million to win this race. the big wild card is if ashjian stays in, does he hand the race to reid. is there a potential for this tape to impact this race negatively for sharron angle? here s the thing. it could cause some on the fence to say, wait a second. sharron angle has portrayed herself as someone who s going to go to washington and clean things up, however, when she makes statements like this, it raises the red flag. it s not helpful 28 days before election. thank you. you know, there are no signs scott ashjian plans to give in to sharron angle.
you have her talking about how she has juice to be able to open doors here in washington, d.c. with the likes of jim demint, mitch mcconnell. ashjian did not take the bait. he secretly recorded the conversation, gave it to one of nevada s best political journalists and here we are now. now, she is here tonight for a fund-raiser with some very powerful republican, including john cornyn and massachusetts senator, scott brown. very interesting conversation tonight. yeah. let s two questions. the first one, how close is that race? nevada? it is neck and neck right now. if you were to look at polling, it shows that it is anyone s game. let s look at the cnn opinion research poll. couple of weeks old, but this really tells where we are at the race. harry reid is in a fight for his life.
he told american morning and went on to say politics in general is corrupt. what do you think should come of it now that this is out there? i don t think listen. people can listen to it. they can read it, make their own decisions. here in nevada, we have an interesting situation. we have people from washington, d.c. trying to affect the nevada race. we have a tea party express out of california that put in their candidate. they gave her the boost she needed with 30 days left. infused her race with money. the republicans put 12 or 13 people on the ballot, chopped up the vote, so the most popular candidate didn t get it. it wasn t scott ashjian. at the end of the day, we re going to put on a good race. the people of nevada will have a good choice and hopefully they vote for me and see through the political rhetoric out there. let s do this. try to shift the focus just a bit here to some of the economic
outsiders like a conventional politician. it does. she talks about how she has juice here in washington, d.c. with some very powerful republicans. what we re talking about is a secret tape that happened back in i guess last week or wednesday or thursday. it was done by scott ashjian. scott is a tea party candidate. he s running for senate out there. sharron angle, who s spoupporte by the tea party, she s trying to get ashjian out of the race. she sits down for about a half hour, tries to get him to get out. talks very bad about the republican party and then has this to say. let s take a listen. okay. there you go.
if you heard a democrat doing it, they d feel the same way. nobody likes back room deals. that s what the tea party claims to be against. i mean isn t it fun? you re probably new to this business than i am but i think that you may know much already. isn t it amazing to hear politicians talking as outsiders talking the language of tammany hall and chicago. this guy s got juice. this is blagojevich and his brother, it sounds like that kind of conversation. it is pretty funny to hear but it s also a little presumptuous. if she wins this race and joe miller wins that race and ken buck wins in colorado, they probably will have a little bit of clout. they ll be able to influence the direction of the senate. but if you don t win you don t have anything. here s some more of the treasured trophy. here it is sharron angle on republican reaction on her primary win. this is in that secret tape by scott ashjian.